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Denominational Groups, 2000

13,545 20,925   79,646 637 52,639
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 60 83,879 563.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 1,433 9.6
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 3 229 1.5
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 592 4.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 275 1.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 291 2.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 164 1.1
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 18 0.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 122 0.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 32 0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 3 415 2.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 15 6,791 45.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 85 0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 140 0.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 111 0.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 314 2.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 377 2.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 15 11,085 74.4
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 21 0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 6 2,023 13.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 500 3.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 8 2,943 19.8
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 288 1.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 130 0.9
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 142 112,258  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 148,976. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (112,258) include 75.4% 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.