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Parkersburg-Marietta, WV-OH MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

18,069 36,347   9,568 1,146 86,107
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 33 14,333 90.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 554 3.5
Catholic Church Catholic 10 9,346 59.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 727 4.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 1,268 8.0
Christian Union Evangelical Protestant 2 24 0.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 345 2.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 6 778 4.9
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 1 0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 584 3.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 9 2,826 17.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 34 6,281 39.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 1,838 11.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 2,069 13.1
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 221 1.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 35 0.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 134 0.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 363 2.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 13 3,951 25.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 520 3.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 472 3.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 4 1,342 8.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 112 0.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 10 1,700 10.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 102 22,238 140.8
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 260 72,062  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 157,914. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (72,062) include 45.6% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.