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Denominational Groups, 2000

117,248 34,912 918 31,256 4,247 223,572
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 +9 +877 109.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 +54 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -1 +9,475 138.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 -359 -59.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +2 +15,269 96.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -246 -92.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -26 -4.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +129 125.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -68 -61.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +380 79.0%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant 0 +100 73.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +2 +101 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +980 66.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +99 17.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +100 2.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +2 +573 12.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +122 23.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +918 n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant -2 -83 -11.0%
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant +1 +143 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +485 99.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +906 34.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +5 +504 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +2 +853 31.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 -163 -9.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -320 -67.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +132 22.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +14 +24,383 44.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +66 135.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 +226 286.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +5 +6,045 34.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +38 38.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +40 n.a.
  Totals: +46 +61,733 +51.3%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 289,782; in 2000 it was 412,153. The total population changed 19.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (124,868) represent 43.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (188,581) include 45.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 33 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 33 groups had 120,231 adherents in 1980 and 181,964 adherents in 2000, for a change of 51.3%

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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