Orlando, FL MSA

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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	34	217,207	132.1
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	26	4,207	2.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	61	28,957	17.6
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	269	0.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	6	532	0.3
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	105	0.1
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	22	2,579	1.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	27	9,046	5.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	180	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,618	1.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	63	11,191	6.8
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	19	920	0.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	253	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	38	7,204	4.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	43	6,576	4.0
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	369	0.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	315	0.2
Conservative Mennonite Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.0
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	486	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	715	0.4
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	102	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	217	0.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	375	0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	3,965	2.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	11,985	7.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	6	578	0.4
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,473	0.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	6,352	3.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	17	11,724	7.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	155	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	7	722	0.4
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	7	946	0.6
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	280	0.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	68	0.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	12	4,504	2.7
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,145	0.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	47	17,008	10.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	136	128,009	77.8
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	536	0.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	573	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	699	0.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	884	0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	3,339	2.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	27	14,679	8.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	19	9,387	5.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	30	0.0
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	499	0.3
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	146	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	255	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	43	25,364	15.4
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	337	0.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	9	3,138	1.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	73	52,926	32.2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	575	0.4
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	2	488	0.3
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	280	0.2
Coptic Orthodox Church	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	1,185	0.7
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the	Orthodox	1	75	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	0	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	174	0.1
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	300	0.2
Bahá'í	Other Theology	5	559	0.3
Buddhism	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	25	10,929	6.7
Hindu	Other Theology	7	n.a.	n.a.
Jain	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	15	15,830	9.6
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	4	2,691	1.6
Sikh	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	483	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	969	628,765
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		772,859

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,224,852; in 2000 it was 1,644,561. The total population changed 34.3%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (628,765) include 38.2% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (772,859) include 47.0% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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