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Sacramento-Yolo, CA CMSA

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 % Change
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 0 +1 3.7%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -3 -3,287 -41.4%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 0 -19 -15.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +8 +10,086 39.9%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +437 228.8%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +115,528 56.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,892 154.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 +168 12.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +3,286 255.3%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +3 +194 75.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +4 +933 87.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +5 +663 103.9%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +44 18.7%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +14 +5,154 11.7%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -38 -32.5%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 +53 1.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +5 +131 3.1%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +5 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 +1,383 20.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +722 48.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +3 -1,315 -9.1%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +4 +238 97.5%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +158 31.3%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -8 +1,820 9.7%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +4,450 217.1%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +9 +4,535 264.9%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +504 272.4%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +5 +8,950 71.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -485 -7.8%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant -1 +233 111.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant -2 -376 -86.0%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +5 +4,225 102.2%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant -3 +152 11.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +2 -301 -1.9%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +5 +783 1058.1%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -3 -548 -23.3%
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant 0 +36 21.3%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,437 389.4%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +62 0.6%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +13 -4,627 -14.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +202 21.6%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +2 -1,198 -38.9%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 +36 0.3%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +6 +710 54.8%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -261 -19.0%
  Totals: +96 +156,751 +35.0%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,481,102; in 2000 it was 1,796,857. The total population changed 21.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (476,237) represent 32.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (640,430) include 35.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 44 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 44 groups had 447,382 adherents in 1990 and 604,133 adherents in 2000, for a change of 35.0%

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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