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