Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

243,056	173,226	4,426	94,357	33,342	1,021,134
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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	24	18,386	12.7
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	195	0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	25	18,777	13.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	36	12,539	8.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	188	0.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	58	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	121,266	84.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	36	65,966	45.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,805	1.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	200	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	26	4,610	3.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	34	7,989	5.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	183	0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	7	559	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,580	2.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	9	475	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	16	7,175	5.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	560	0.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,977	1.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,625	1.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	50	25,875	17.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	22	10,226	7.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,074	0.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	13	1,125	0.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	12,800	8.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	13	7,960	5.5
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	308	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,417	1.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	15	20,000	13.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	9	3,301	2.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,240	0.9
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	11	4,342	3.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	60	24,029	16.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,340	1.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,198	0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,719	1.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	181	150,714	104.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	530	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	45	13,877	9.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	142	83,211	57.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	270	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	348	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	926	639,074

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,443,244. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (639,074) include 44.3% 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.