Omaha, NE-IA MSA

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