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Peoria-Pekin, IL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

54,694 50,922 555 55,237 5,855 180,124
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 38 56,247 153.7
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 2 150 0.4
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 2 238 0.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 10 2,865 7.8
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 119 0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 13 3,923 10.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 5 1,431 3.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 213 0.6
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 43 0.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 358 1.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 15 3,628 9.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 13 1,601 4.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 819 2.2
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 113 0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 67 0.2
Evangelical Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant 4 744 2.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The Evangelical Protestant 1 9 0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 4 1,770 4.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 22 13,270 36.3
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 8 1,132 3.1
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 131 0.4
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 2 135 0.4
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 202 0.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 862 2.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 483 1.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 19 6,551 17.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 61 0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 10 4,265 11.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 11 6,788 18.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 7 2,097 5.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 17 11,454 31.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 21 10,876 29.7
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 735 2.0
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 17 8,015 21.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 47 27,953 76.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 1,081 3.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 584 1.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 227 0.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 318 171,240  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 365,864. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (171,240) include 46.8% 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.