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Denominational Groups, 2000

137,785	53,860	1,286	485,163	25,303	634,329
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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,575	1.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	441	0.3
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	266	0.2
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	100	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	41	12,848	9.6
Bahá'í	Other Theology	5	338	0.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	545	0.4
Buddhism	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	163	485,163	362.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	104	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	952	0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	96	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	4	247	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,280	1.7
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	6	214	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	16	3,698	2.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	551	0.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,241	2.4
Coptic Orthodox Church	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	107	0.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	24	11,533	8.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	375	0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	11	3,432	2.6
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	19	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	795	0.6
Hindu	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	3,500	2.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	900	0.7
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	232	0.2
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	126	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	630	0.5
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	7	687	0.5
Jain	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	9	13,000	9.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	27	9,004	6.7
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the	Orthodox	1	125	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	216	0.2
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	12	7,878	5.9
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	28	6,598	4.9
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	5	419	0.3
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	368	0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,541	3.4
Sikh	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	111	92,931	69.5
Tao	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	389	0.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	10	2,083	1.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	73	28,622	21.4
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	54	0.0
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,687	1.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	256	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	681	703,397
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		1,068,581

The population of these 8 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,285,270; in 2000 it was 1,337,726. The total population changed 4.1%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (703,397) include 52.6% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (1,068,581) include 79.9% 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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