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Denominational Groups, 2000

267,005 111,559 2,502 217,207 30,492 1,015,796
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 1 473 0.4
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
American Association of Lutheran Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 142 0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 4 919 0.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 45 16,960 13.9
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 3 128 0.1
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 5 689 0.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 45,925 37.5
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 1 52 0.0
Catholic Church Catholic 29 110,307 90.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 20 2,938 2.4
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 4 383 0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 7 1,922 1.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 30 8,167 6.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 197 0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 8 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 11 883 0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 47 6,978 5.7
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 21 0.0
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 13 548 0.5
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 30 0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 17 7,703 6.3
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 502 0.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 33 5,707 4.7
Church of the United Brethren in Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 83 0.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 43 7,713 6.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 22 0.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 27 15,447 12.6
Evangelical Congregational Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 88 0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 3 510 0.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 18 9,788 8.0
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 186 0.2
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 21 0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 4 177 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 103 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 7 9,456 7.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 15 14,871 12.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 268 0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 4 692 0.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 7 18,800 15.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 16 9,643 7.9
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 2 189 0.2
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province Mainline Protestant 1 365 0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 3 550 0.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 4 245 0.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 39 22,768 18.6
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 5 2,273 1.9
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 19 0.0
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 695 0.6
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 1 17 0.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 484 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 40 13,797 11.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 123 114,739 93.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 440 0.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 11 3,166 2.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 62 49,087 40.1
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 5 359 0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 597 0.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 752 509,232  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,224,852. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (509,232) include 41.6% 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.