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Saginaw-Bay City-Midland, MI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

75,210 35,788 660 93,855 2,155 195,402
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 9 3,529 8.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 17 3,649 8.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 87 0.2
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 1 73 0.2
Catholic Church Catholic 61 122,027 289.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 145 0.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 30 0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 1,671 4.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 267 0.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 150 0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 10 2,622 6.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 5 619 1.5
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 3 65 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,000 2.4
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 175 0.4
Church of the Lutheran Confession Evangelical Protestant 1 252 0.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 12 2,191 5.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 396 0.9
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 11 5,270 12.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 205 0.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 15 11,638 27.6
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 235 0.6
Evangelical Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant 1 123 0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 6 1,422 3.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 4 240 0.6
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 223 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 29 34,752 82.4
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 265 0.6
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 313 0.7
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 265 0.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 14 10,536 25.0
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 441 1.1
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 3 914 2.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 7 986 2.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 4 813 1.9
The Protestant Conference (Lutheran) Evangelical Protestant 1 150 0.4
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 1 135 0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 174 0.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 7 3,432 8.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 42 17,276 41.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 18 11,345 26.9
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 314 240,101  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 421,518. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (240,101) include 57.0% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.