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Denominational Groups, 2000

16,117 66,033 8,197 507,360 20,479 344,700
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 159 560,259 647.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 72 22,530 26.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 57 36,639 42.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 26 9,898 11.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 22 7,748 9.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 10 4,679 5.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 10 2,553 3.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 9 5,161 6.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 8 1,103 1.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 7 1,259 1.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 6 256 0.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 357 0.4
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 5 543 0.6
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 5 649 0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 580 0.7
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 250 0.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 3 589 0.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 151 0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 3 474 0.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 3 341 0.4
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 3 373 0.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,215 1.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 1,031 1.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 384 0.4
Christ Catholic Church Evangelical Protestant 2 86 0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 2 263 0.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 495 0.6
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 276 0.3
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 1 65 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 67 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 586 0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 1 950 1.1
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox 1 943 1.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 444 662,778  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 865,771. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (662,778) include 76.6% 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.