St. Joseph, MO MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

30,838	13,465		11,278	1,216	45,693
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
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+3,400	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,656	11.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,139	64.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+998	67.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+504	166.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+500	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+383	72.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+176	73.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+140	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+19	8.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	-32	-7.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-60	-48.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-61	-12.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-109	-20.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	-119	-31.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-130	-80.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-138	-11.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-175	-23.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-428	-30.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-467	-90.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	-1,049	-8.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,228	-25.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-12	-1,284	-46.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-6	-2,063	-24.0%
	Totals:	-12	+1,572	+2.9%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 101,868; in 2000 it was 102,490. The total population changed 4.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (54,524) represent 53.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (56,797) include 55.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 24 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 24 groups had 54,311 adherents in 1980 and 55,883 adherents in 2000, for a change of 2.9%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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