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	-1	+7,261	36.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+915	229.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+21	16.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+845	828.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+421	73.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+198	101.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-63	-33.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+145	34.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,004	577.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+37	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+90	1.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+132	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-1.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+91	44.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+819	436.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+154	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+346	33.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-134	-54.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-54	-3.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+2	+4,066	29.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+50	714.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-725	-32.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-90	-31.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+24	1.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-982	-14.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+498	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+4	+737	171.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+380	173.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+234	160.0%
	Totals:	+24	+16,413	+27.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 92,006; in 2000 it was 124,277. The total population changed 16.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (59,359) represent 64.5% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 59,187 adherents in 1980 and 75,600 adherents in 2000, for a change of 27.7%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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