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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,844	2.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	38	22,829	26.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	10	8,167	9.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,308	3.9
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	65,398	76.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	22	34,182	40.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,544	1.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,465	1.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	31	5,120	6.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	495	0.6
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	372	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	36	3,890	4.6
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	33	1,440	1.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	12	3,897	4.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	972	1.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,118	3.6
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	11	1,672	2.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	24	13,598	15.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	11	6,721	7.9
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,022	1.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,225	1.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	9	5,190	6.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	105	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	24	3,184	3.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	5,675	6.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,567	1.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	210	0.3
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	467	0.6
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	61	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	17	3,554	4.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	62	24,422	28.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,061	1.2
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	22	293	0.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	205	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	416	0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,544	1.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	269	147,135	172.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	1,125	1.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	49	9,910	11.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	142	68,334	79.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	449	0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	140	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	970	457,355

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 855,545. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (457,355) include 53.5% 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.