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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	86	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	518	0.3
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	773	0.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	37	10,487	5.9
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	12	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	101	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	148	0.1
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	633	0.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	84	21,700	12.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,437	1.4
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	9,028	5.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	0.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	98	219,190	122.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	19	6,121	3.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,286	0.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	20	6,886	3.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	59	17,717	9.9
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	6	981	0.6
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	19	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	26	4,314	2.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,288	0.7
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	188	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	9	301	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	129	55,543	31.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	183	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	49	13,448	7.5
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	44	6,489	3.6
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	2	326	0.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	87	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	70	0.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	44	16,810	9.4
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	130	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,717	1.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	73	35,704	19.9
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	206	0.1
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	382	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	19	1,884	1.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	28	3,568	2.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	9	20,850	11.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	15	10,100	5.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	37	18,110	10.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	211	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	8	9,250	5.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	166	0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	48	18,366	10.2
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	3	410	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,458	1.4
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	116	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	83	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	178	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,459	1.4
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	10	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	688	0.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	65	26,195	14.6
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	29	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	947	0.5
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	56	20,500	11.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	53	13,402	7.5
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	400	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	8	2,125	1.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	24	6,182	3.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	91	27,692	15.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	934	0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,083	0.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,440	623,878

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,793,476. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (623,878) include 34.8% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.