Richmond-Petersburg, VA MSA

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

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.