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Denominational Groups, 2000

174,410 59,568 6,644 319,322 80,486 1,156,427
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 65 203,794 137.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 98 43,892 29.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 69 31,828 21.5
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 27,727 18.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 53 25,267 17.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 13 18,775 12.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 25 15,550 10.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 30 14,424 9.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 4 12,500 8.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 43 12,301 8.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 28 10,092 6.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 23 7,934 5.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 19 6,657 4.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 18 6,212 4.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 23 5,405 3.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 34 4,281 2.9
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 8 4,133 2.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 11 3,078 2.1
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 6 2,352 1.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 5 2,050 1.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 17 1,712 1.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 7 1,491 1.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 8 1,377 0.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,373 0.9
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 20 1,308 0.9
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 4 1,295 0.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 1,287 0.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 9 1,223 0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 8 1,069 0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 4 936 0.6
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 720 0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 5 638 0.4
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 5 505 0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 3 437 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 369 0.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 2 258 0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 2 244 0.2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 6 235 0.2
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 3 210 0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 3 207 0.1
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 4 191 0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 5 185 0.1
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant 1 169 0.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 150 0.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 1 127 0.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 117 0.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 74 0.1
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 51 0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 1 27 0.0
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 10 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 11 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 12 n.a. n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 4 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 753 476,237  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,481,102. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (476,237) include 32.2% 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.