New London-Norwich, CT NECMA

Denominational Groups, 2000

6,482	24,286	675	80,563	5,648	141,434
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	33	78,979	309.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	20	7,246	28.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	21	5,965	23.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	11	4,884	19.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	10	4,575	17.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	3,013	11.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	12	2,973	11.7
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	2,898	11.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,717	10.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	1,375	5.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	11	1,322	5.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	1,172	4.6
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	3	1,128	4.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,041	4.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	9	886	3.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	700	2.8
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	600	2.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	395	1.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	395	1.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	380	1.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	309	1.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	300	1.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	266	1.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	256	1.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	158	0.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	121	0.5
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	49	0.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	33	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	183	124,289

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 254,957. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (124,289) include 48.7% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.