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	80,563	311.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,142	4.4
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	201	0.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	440	1.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	117	0.5
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	634	2.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	115	0.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,000	3.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	111	0.4
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	193	0.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,022	3.9
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	586	2.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	267	1.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	3	504	2.0
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	19	6,502	25.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	51	0.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	11	4,915	19.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	1,089	4.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	53	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	12	1,520	5.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	409	1.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	20	6,809	26.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	12	2,938	11.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	537	2.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	138	0.5
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	85	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	1,236	4.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	4,100	15.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	227	0.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	169	117,654
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		134,885

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 254,957; in 2000 it was 259,088. The total population changed 1.6%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (117,654) include 45.4% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (134,885) include 52.1% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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