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Denominational Groups, 2000

421,411 138,328 2,251 67,687 14,399 439,270
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
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +1 -973 -3.6%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -67 -37.2%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 -487 -11.9%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -1 -1.7%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +13,123 24.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -36 -19.9%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -5 -1,115 -5.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +382 6.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -6 +2,447 141.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +4 +842 51.7%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -3 -147 -50.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +1,142 17.1%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -3 +1,424 9.3%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -4 +6 0.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant -2 -140 -36.8%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +78 67.2%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -2 +764 10.4%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -36 -29.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 +334 6.9%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -17 -4.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +8 6.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +9,545 175.1%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -25 -0.5%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +611 289.6%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +7 +9,242 196.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +78 3.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +243 3.7%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 0 -31 -15.8%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant -1 -418 -91.9%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +18 +1,340 36.1%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +4 +456 42.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -1,365 -10.8%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +46 17.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -332 -29.8%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +2,484 646.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +5 -274 -10.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +25 +12,228 4.7%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -11 -2.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 +338 41.2%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +3 +3,964 4.6%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -55 -37.9%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -35 -7.3%
  Totals: +42 +55,560 +9.7%

The population of these 6 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 958,839; in 2000 it was 1,083,346. The total population changed 13.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (613,703) represent 64.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (644,076) include 59.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 42 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 42 groups had 573,085 adherents in 1990 and 628,645 adherents in 2000, for a change of 9.7%

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 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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