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Denominational Groups, 2000

76,569 97,914 3,250 169,746 16,263 353,256
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 1 268 0.4
American Association of Lutheran Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 572 0.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 17 4,416 6.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 13 5,720 8.9
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 9 1,538 2.4
Berean Fundamental Church Evangelical Protestant 3 246 0.4
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 17,244 27.0
Catholic Church Catholic 73 146,999 229.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 10 5,195 8.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 4 280 0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 12 3,906 6.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 14 6,143 9.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 170 0.3
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 5 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 129 0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 6 877 1.4
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 106 0.2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 56 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 14 6,515 10.2
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 66 0.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 1,274 2.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 9 1,653 2.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 12 4,741 7.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 3 745 1.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 48 36,958 57.8
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 693 1.1
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 2 114 0.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 124 0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 5 4,650 7.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 4 4,575 7.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 4 631 1.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 6 6,500 10.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 61 0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 36 21,236 33.2
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 3 92 0.1
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.1
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 207 0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 36 0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 1 76 0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 44 18,004 28.2
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 96 0.2
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 574 0.9
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 5 774 1.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 2,152 3.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 11 8,874 13.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 429 0.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 20 9,114 14.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 52 27,184 42.5
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 161 0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 1,088 1.7
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 491 353,301  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 639,580. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (353,301) include 55.2% 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.