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Denominational Groups, 2000

386,519	211,826	5,615	645,700	83,044	1,270,903
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	313	650,442	261.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	269	180,914	72.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	114,943	46.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	149	98,190	39.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	153	79,187	31.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	170	70,578	28.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	28	53,140	21.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	90	37,453	15.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	42	19,320	7.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	104	19,240	7.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	40	14,788	5.9
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	17	14,310	5.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	31	13,913	5.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	50	13,132	5.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	70	12,127	4.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	24	9,035	3.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	29	9,006	3.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	16	8,580	3.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	46	8,207	3.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	26	5,408	2.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	5,166	2.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,341	1.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	24	4,029	1.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	19	3,332	1.3
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	3,015	1.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,859	1.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	27	2,357	1.0
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	20	2,083	0.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,778	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	5	1,518	0.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,442	0.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,260	0.5
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,085	0.4
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,010	0.4
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	600	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	539	0.2
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	439	0.2
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	5	382	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	6	312	0.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	303	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	8	303	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	251	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	213	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	202	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	191	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	163	0.1
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	4	162	0.1
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	157	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	50	0.0
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.0
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.0
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	28	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	21	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	2	36	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	26	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	13	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,955	1,471,880

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,492,525. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,471,880) include 59.1% 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.