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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
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -484 -21.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +7 +11,936 83.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +113 n.a.
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 +243 7.0%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -27 -31.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +24,328 56.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +60 71.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -4 -2,697 -13.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +574 10.0%
Christian Union Evangelical Protestant 0 -15 -33.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 +605 17.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,200 94.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +4 +144 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +12 +3,716 91.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 -282 -2.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,348 6.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +240 n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +22 13.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -4 -646 -7.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +85 n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +925 22.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 -872 -71.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -88 -38.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +417 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +8 +14,995 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +6 +5,175 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +458 126.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +5 +9,581 220.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +1,085 89.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,156 20.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 0 +12 8.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant -1 -531 -94.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +43 +5,052 n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +47 120.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +17 +1,531 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -1,450 -11.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +248 365.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +108 16.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +2,265 376.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +9 +306 14.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +45 +68,361 33.0%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 0 +60 50.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +100 23.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 +849 274.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 +6,187 7.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +90 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +123 38.0%
  Totals: +174 +156,653 +33.0%

The population of these 6 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 860,969; in 2000 it was 1,083,346. The total population changed 13.0%. The adherent totals for 1980 (475,540) represent 55.2% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 47 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 47 groups had 474,531 adherents in 1980 and 631,184 adherents in 2000, for a change of 33.0%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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