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