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Denominational Groups, 2000

77,193 38,691 534 10,308 3,118 106,088
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 % Change
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,402 4.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 -350 -13.4%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +220 14.7%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +235 53.3%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,430 127.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +122 19.0%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +77 220.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +1,734 20.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +19 1.9%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -595 -7.9%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +210 6.5%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -180 -9.1%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +31 4.2%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -11 -22.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +78 55.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -43 -1.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 +54 10.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +26 1.4%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -339 -21.1%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +40 0.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +17 0.4%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +106 481.8%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +10 3.3%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 -150 -14.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -61 -19.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +10 5.3%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +486 215.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -147 -38.8%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -1,411 -7.2%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 -60 -13.3%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant -1 -579 -11.1%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -44 -6.8%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -86 -67.2%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant -1 -93 -23.5%
  Totals: +15 +3,158 +2.5%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 224,477; in 2000 it was 235,932. The total population changed 5.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (136,871) represent 61.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (129,844) include 55.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 34 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 34 groups had 125,807 adherents in 1990 and 128,965 adherents in 2000, for a change of 2.5%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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