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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -752 -20.3%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant -1 -79 -1.5%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 +287 112.5%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 -581 -16.5%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -50 -41.3%
Catholic Church Catholic -2 +697 1.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -457 -8.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +189 5.6%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 +209 34.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +50 28.9%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 -45 -46.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +305 23.6%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant -1 -105 -32.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 -568 -19.7%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -39 -2.7%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +4 +936 217.7%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +181 52.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -122 -1.2%
Evangelical Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,077 108.4%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -64 -17.3%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 -150 -15.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -191 -1.4%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -8 -865 -23.4%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -313 -26.9%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 +86 409.5%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +88 57.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -1,512 -24.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 -211 -7.8%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -192 -30.7%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +621 201.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +113 23.9%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +3 -297 -3.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +53 22.4%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -1,054 -15.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -4,546 -18.5%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -100 -40.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -89 -64.0%
  Totals: 0 -7,490 -4.5%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 339,172; in 2000 it was 347,387. The total population changed 2.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (175,269) represent 51.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (167,263) include 48.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 38 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 38 groups had 166,379 adherents in 1990 and 158,889 adherents in 2000, for a change of -4.5%

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 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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