St. Cloud, MN MSA

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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	-4,233	-5.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+304	21.2%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-167	-72.9%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-134	-22.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-77	-28.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-6	-2.1%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2	1.2%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+8	6.6%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+41	128.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+105	25.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+494	7.3%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+166	195.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-51	-36.4%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-8	-7.2%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+78	24.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-21	-5.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+4	+4,955	44.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-529	-26.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-129	-25.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-279	-9.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+200	69.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-56	-43.1%
	Totals:	+3	+663	+.6%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 148,976; in 2000 it was 167,392. The total population changed 12.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (112,258) represent 75.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (114,753) include 68.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 23 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 23 groups had 112,237 adherents in 1990 and 112,900 adherents in 2000, for a change of .6%

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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