Portland-Salem, OR-WA CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

253,446	123,852	4,918	272,474	104,089	1,506,444
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	106	249,919	157.8
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	518	0.3
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	182	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	142	0.1
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,161	0.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	67	18,745	11.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,914	1.2
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,822	1.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	970	0.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	63	15,264	9.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	736	0.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	23	9,120	5.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,046	0.7
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	158	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	295	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	38	12,546	7.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	40	5,319	3.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	83	22,290	14.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	114	0.1
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,480	0.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	846	0.5
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	257	0.2
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	746	0.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	20	3,669	2.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	22	8,864	5.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	146	0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	46	19,717	12.5
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	2	525	0.3
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	187	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,338	1.5
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,070	0.7
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	215	0.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	936	0.6
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	49	17,609	11.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	33	11,219	7.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,172	0.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	27	10,580	6.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	22	9,878	6.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	42	19,807	12.5
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	160	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	69	36,899	23.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	24	5,097	3.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	252	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	270	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	61	27,847	17.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	26	7,221	4.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	95	31,578	19.9
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	710	0.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	87	40,160	25.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	2,862	1.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	7	1,672	1.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,191	609,484

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,583,467. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (609,484) include 38.5% 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.