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Metro Area Membership Report
Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC MSA
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
181 |
150,714 |
104.4 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
121,266 |
84.0 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
142 |
83,211 |
57.7 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
36 |
65,966 |
45.7 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
50 |
25,875 |
17.9 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
60 |
24,029 |
16.7 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
15 |
20,000 |
13.9 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
25 |
18,777 |
13.0 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
24 |
18,386 |
12.7 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
45 |
13,877 |
9.6 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
12,800 |
8.9 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
36 |
12,539 |
8.7 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
22 |
10,226 |
7.1 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
34 |
7,989 |
5.5 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
13 |
7,960 |
5.5 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
16 |
7,175 |
5.0 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
26 |
4,610 |
3.2 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
4,342 |
3.0 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
21 |
3,580 |
2.5 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
3,301 |
2.3 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
2,719 |
1.9 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
17 |
2,625 |
1.8 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
18 |
2,417 |
1.7 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
2,340 |
1.6 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
1,977 |
1.4 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
1,805 |
1.3 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
1,240 |
0.9 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
1,198 |
0.8 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
13 |
1,125 |
0.8 |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
1,074 |
0.7 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
559 |
0.4 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
560 |
0.4 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
4 |
530 |
0.4 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
475 |
0.3 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
348 |
0.2 |
| International Pentecostal Church of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
308 |
0.2 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
270 |
0.2 |
| American Association of Lutheran Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
195 |
0.1 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
200 |
0.1 |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
188 |
0.1 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
183 |
0.1 |
| Evangelical Methodist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
57 |
0.0 |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
58 |
0.0 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
0 |
0.0 |
| Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
0 |
0.0 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 926 |
639,074 |
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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.
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