Panama City, FL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

39,815	12,703	123	7,025	1,802	86,749
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	-178	-63.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+687	22.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+3	+5,373	325.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+217	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+12	4.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-157	-82.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+264	115.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+100	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+401	38.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-165	-50.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+309	30.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	+493	53.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+66	22.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+123	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,150	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+465	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+114	158.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+590	64.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+101	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+30	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-651	-34.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+621	363.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-62	-29.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+200	63.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+6,351	29.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+13	n.a.
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+2,108	28.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+50	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+82	n.a.
	Totals:	+46	+18,707	+44.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 97,740; in 2000 it was 148,217. The total population changed 16.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (42,478) represent 43.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (61,468) include 41.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 42,129 adherents in 1980 and 60,836 adherents in 2000, for a change of 44.4%

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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