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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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+38	+20,051	225.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+28	+45,321	55.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+20	+5,977	115.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+19	+920	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+17	+8,408	98.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+16	+6,775	163.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+14	+6,084	2270.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+2,889	67.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+12	+14,522	1110.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+12	+9,833	23.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+4,222	1497.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+9	+150,374	225.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+72	3.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+8	+6,482	34.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+3,619	67.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+722	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+11,985	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+3,965	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+573	n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+6	-941	-52.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+5	+1,540	86.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+2,361	56.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+264	119.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+375	185.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+285	33.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-206	-11.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+4,295	58.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+4	+2,502	36.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+674	1644.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+3	+934	7.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+3	+800	34.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+239	797.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+431	161.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+2	+203	72.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-149	-41.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+443	12.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-16	-8.0%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-26	-20.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+103	24.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-302	-54.0%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	+1	0	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+102	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+1,185	n.a.
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	+30	13.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+174	n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+181	183.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-10	-3.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	+525	1050.0%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	-1	-288	-66.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-262	-44.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-39	-56.0%
	Totals:	+325	+318,201	+105.5%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 804,925; in 2000 it was 1,644,561. The total population changed 34.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (302,600) represent 37.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (628,765) include 38.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 51 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 51 groups had 301,683 adherents in 1980 and 619,884 adherents in 2000, for a change of 105.5%

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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