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Denominational Groups, 2000

195,798 154,289 1,872 56,743 25,683 562,127
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
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 161 123,006 161.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 120 63,248 83.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 62 22,307 29.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 57 29,072 38.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 29 18,776 24.7
Catholic Church Catholic 24 30,849 40.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 23 6,819 9.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 19 3,425 4.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 17 3,083 4.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 14 2,412 3.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 10 2,146 2.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 10 4,171 5.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 9 3,296 4.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 9 2,049 2.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 9 3,518 4.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 8 1,276 1.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 8 2,129 2.8
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 7 2,104 2.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 2,420 3.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 1,201 1.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 4 2,632 3.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 368 0.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 571 0.8
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 331 0.4
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 155 0.2
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 297 0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 351 0.5
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 265 0.4
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant 1 52 0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 94 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 628 332,423  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 761,311. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (332,423) include 43.7% 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.