Rochester, MN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

16,620	29,852	498	27,239	2,499	47,569
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
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+2,745	11.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+2	+1,467	8.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+821	651.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+656	125.7%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+414	69.8%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+347	35.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+315	184.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+3	+258	28.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+218	27.9%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+200	50.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+131	8.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+100	34.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+69	22.2%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+54	54.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+52	65.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+40	235.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+27	26.7%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+27	270.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+11	3.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-3	-2.6%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-30.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-29	-15.9%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-67	-24.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-93	-6.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-227	-9.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-318	-17.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-573	-7.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,609	-20.6%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+15	+5,021	+7.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 106,470; in 2000 it was 124,277. The total population changed 16.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (70,674) represent 66.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (76,708) include 61.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 28 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 28 groups had 69,537 adherents in 1990 and 74,558 adherents in 2000, for a change of 7.2%

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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