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Metro Area Membership Report
Portland-Salem, OR-WA CMSA
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
129 |
55,543 |
31.0 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
98 |
219,190 |
122.2 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
91 |
27,692 |
15.4 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
87 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
84 |
21,700 |
12.1 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
73 |
35,704 |
19.9 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
65 |
26,195 |
14.6 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
59 |
17,717 |
9.9 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
56 |
20,500 |
11.4 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
53 |
13,402 |
7.5 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
49 |
13,448 |
7.5 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
48 |
18,366 |
10.2 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
44 |
16,810 |
9.4 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
44 |
6,489 |
3.6 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
37 |
18,110 |
10.1 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
37 |
10,487 |
5.9 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
28 |
3,568 |
2.0 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
26 |
4,314 |
2.4 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
24 |
6,182 |
3.5 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
20 |
6,886 |
3.8 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
19 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
19 |
6,121 |
3.4 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
19 |
1,884 |
1.1 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
16 |
2,458 |
1.4 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
15 |
10,100 |
5.6 |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
2,459 |
1.4 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
1,717 |
1.0 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
1,288 |
0.7 |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
688 |
0.4 |
| Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
934 |
0.5 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
1,286 |
0.7 |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
2,437 |
1.4 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
20,850 |
11.6 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
301 |
0.2 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
8 |
9,250 |
5.2 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
947 |
0.5 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
8 |
2,125 |
1.2 |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
981 |
0.6 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
1,083 |
0.6 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
211 |
0.1 |
| Evangelical Methodist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
206 |
0.1 |
| American Association of Lutheran Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
773 |
0.4 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
518 |
0.3 |
| Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
410 |
0.2 |
| Apostolic Lutheran Church of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
633 |
0.4 |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
116 |
0.1 |
| Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
183 |
0.1 |
| Advent Christian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
86 |
0.1 |
| Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
382 |
0.2 |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
101 |
0.1 |
| Church of God (Seventh Day) |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
188 |
0.1 |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
70 |
0.0 |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
326 |
0.2 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
178 |
0.1 |
| Church of the United Brethren in Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
29 |
0.0 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
76 |
0.0 |
| Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
130 |
0.1 |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
83 |
0.1 |
| Reformed Episcopal Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
15 |
0.0 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
29 |
0.0 |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
148 |
0.1 |
| Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
31 |
0.0 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
47 |
0.0 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Primitive Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
21 |
0.0 |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
22 |
0.0 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
166 |
0.1 |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
48 |
0.0 |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
1 |
400 |
0.2 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses |
Orthodox |
0 |
12 |
0.0 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
9,028 |
5.0 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 1,440 |
623,878 |
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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.
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