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	% Change
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+151	686.4%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+2,006	489.3%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+2,840	299.9%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2,518	269.6%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	0	+265	262.4%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	+17,850	193.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	+124	149.4%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+2,769	113.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+9,535	94.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+819	63.6%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+67	57.8%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+17	+9,670	53.4%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+17	35.4%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+6,885	31.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+1,914	31.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+4	+53,284	24.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+34	+10,791	19.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+395	18.6%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+729	16.9%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+229	13.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+1,755	13.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-4	+1,871	10.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+837	6.2%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+9	+123	3.4%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+5	2.4%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+44	1.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+47	0.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+3	0.3%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-5	-32	-1.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+4	-741	-2.1%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	-4	-2.2%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3	-3.9%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-8	-460	-4.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,151	-6.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-473	-6.9%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-26	-8.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-2,497	-9.5%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-116	-11.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-2,260	-12.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	-809	-13.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	-2,968	-14.5%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-4,293	-15.5%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-33	-22.3%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-218	-31.7%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-7,100	-34.1%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-5	-964	-39.2%
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-202	-52.9%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	0	-275	-68.8%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-59	-84.3%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+5	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	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	+2	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+90	+102,859	+16.9%

The population of these 8 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,793,476; in 2000 it was 2,265,223. The total population changed 26.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (623,878) represent 34.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (758,779) include 33.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 49 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 49 groups had 610,171 adherents in 1990 and 713,030 adherents in 2000, for a change of 16.9%

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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