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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 +853 15.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +280 32.0%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +7,150 10.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -113 -36.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +184 72.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +286 30.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -154 -73.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -107 -48.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant +1 +51 n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 -515 -45.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -698 -12.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +115 n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -262 -19.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +18 51.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +537 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,000 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +111 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +3 +3,147 330.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -249 -20.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +3 +75 5.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +138 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 +6 2.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +42 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -149 -20.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -63 -19.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -1 -1,032 -67.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -50 -18.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -2 +244 4.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 +205 8.0%
  Totals: 10 11,050 +10.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 238,409; in 2000 it was 259,088. The total population changed 1.6%. The adherent totals for 1980 (110,058) represent 46.2% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (117,654) include 45.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 106,275 adherents in 1980 and 117,325 adherents in 2000, for a change of 10.4%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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