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