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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 % Change
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -12 -24.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -1,114 -23.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +8 +2,760 94.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -311 -25.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +4 +17,412 11.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +11 +6,530 442.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +1 -813 -19.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +665 12.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +49 38.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -192 -58.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 -152 -21.0%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +17 18.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +43 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +15 +3,710 98.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -87 -50.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +67 4.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -176 -9.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -271 -89.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -3 -859 -17.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +515 63.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +963 634.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 +1,563 4.0%
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +337 95.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -242 -77.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 -23 -17.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +498 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,170 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 -75 -12.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +3 +4,435 215.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +3,181 16.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +3 +251 738.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +63 50.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +5 +526 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -5,672 -27.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +3 +293 n.a.
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -955 -29.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +93 5.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +9 +5,349 79.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -7 -2.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -3 -2,669 -30.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +5 -3,359 -12.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -60 -40.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +25 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +174 19.0%
  Totals: +77 +33,640 +10.4%

The population of these 5 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 605,419; in 2000 it was 716,998. The total population changed 12.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (322,669) represent 53.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (363,742) include 50.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 45 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 45 groups had 322,048 adherents in 1980 and 355,688 adherents in 2000, for a change of 10.4%

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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