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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	217	147,338	93.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	46	94,357	60.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	143	81,616	52.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	9	25,400	16.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	59	23,542	15.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	50	23,129	14.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	13	21,400	13.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	25	18,538	11.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	44	11,604	7.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	10,875	6.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	38	10,805	6.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	23	9,535	6.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	34	9,518	6.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	19	7,774	5.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	19	5,976	3.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	15	3,900	2.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	25	3,860	2.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	10	3,600	2.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	9	3,204	2.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,024	1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,937	1.9
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	2,901	1.9
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	5	2,739	1.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,450	1.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,209	1.4
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,992	1.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,747	1.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis	Orthodox	1	1,400	0.9
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,378	0.9
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	11	1,252	0.8
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,156	0.7
Bahá'í	Other Theology	5	776	0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	653	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	611	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	566	0.4
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	544	0.4
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	509	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	9	466	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	435	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	416	0.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	355	0.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	320	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	316	0.2
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	280	0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	218	0.1
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	201	0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	130	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	110	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	86	0.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	79	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	69	0.0
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	56	0.0
Conservative Mennonite Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.0
Hindu	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Buddhism	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	985	548,407
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		781,471

The population of these 15 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,443,244; in 2000 it was 1,569,541. The total population changed 8.8%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (548,407) include 34.9% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (781,471) include 49.8% 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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