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Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

214,750 157,319 2,100 79,249 24,429 710,094
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 17 18,292 27.5
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 13 2,457 3.7
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 35 22,756 34.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 10 1,244 1.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 59 0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 5 1,044 1.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 14 2,035 3.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 444 0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 7 1,308 2.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 30 2,406 3.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 584 0.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 10 1,407 2.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 308 0.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 22 2,527 3.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,006 1.5
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 38 0.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 5 538 0.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 3 1,860 2.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 856 1.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 273 136,010 204.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 74 0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 7 4,478 6.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 33 5,125 7.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 27 11,709 17.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 10 4,508 6.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 7 842 1.3
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province Mainline Protestant 1 276 0.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 86 0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 59 19,409 29.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 47 8,880 13.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 142 60,695 91.2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 80 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 5 2,133 3.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 4 1,166 1.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 359 0.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 808 316,999  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 665,236. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (316,999) include 47.7% 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.