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Metro Area Membership Report
Richmond-Petersburg, VA MSA
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
180 |
136,069 |
157.2 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
120 |
66,194 |
76.5 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
61 |
24,011 |
27.7 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
54 |
25,114 |
29.0 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
30 |
21,960 |
25.4 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
27 |
42,352 |
48.9 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
25 |
6,160 |
7.1 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
22 |
4,146 |
4.8 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
20 |
2,489 |
2.9 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
15 |
3,922 |
4.5 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
15 |
3,754 |
4.3 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
13 |
5,282 |
6.1 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
2,258 |
2.6 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
1,850 |
2.1 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
2,808 |
3.2 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
9 |
7,999 |
9.2 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
2,278 |
2.6 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
9 |
4,101 |
4.7 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
3,880 |
4.5 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
2,379 |
2.8 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
356 |
0.4 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
6 |
586 |
0.7 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
2,395 |
2.8 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
180 |
0.2 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
549 |
0.6 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
3,000 |
3.5 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
4 |
970 |
1.1 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
367 |
0.4 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
137 |
0.2 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
511 |
0.6 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
165 |
0.2 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
105 |
0.1 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
33 |
0.0 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
162 |
0.2 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
2 |
757 |
0.9 |
| Advent Christian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
177 |
0.2 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
348 |
0.4 |
| Reformed Episcopal Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
38 |
0.0 |
| Moravian Church in America--Southern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
114 |
0.1 |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
25 |
0.0 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
13 |
0.0 |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
129 |
0.2 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
30 |
0.0 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
35 |
0.0 |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
65 |
0.1 |
| International Pentecostal Church of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
40 |
0.1 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
76,226 |
88.1 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 736 |
456,519 |
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The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 865,640. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (456,519) include 52.7% 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.
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