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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	% Change
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+4,897	37.3%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+4,878	274.4%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2,920	72.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+14	+2,541	28.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,571	108.9%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+3	+1,177	8.5%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-4	+1,060	2.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+865	26.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+806	74.3%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+700	23.2%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+564	55.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+479	5.3%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+273	21.7%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+218	69.9%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+96	31.7%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+83	97.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+81	1.9%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+47	2.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1	0.6%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-5	-10.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-17	-3.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-1	-20	-1.3%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-30	-14.9%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-34	-94.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-43	-0.5%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-61	-28.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-85	-33.9%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	-1	-101	-62.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-120	-27.3%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-122	-63.9%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-132	-43.6%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	-264	-44.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-778	-6.4%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1,035	-36.2%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-1,244	-23.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,469	-7.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	-1,855	-12.5%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-2,446	-12.7%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-8	-3,337	-38.9%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-24	-4,742	-0.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-4,890	-5.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+38	-4,920	-2.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-10	-8,029	-21.4%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-8	-8,410	-58.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-4	-8,444	-12.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-9	-15,343	-19.4%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	-1	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	-5	-44,719	-3.3%

The population of these 12 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,492,525; in 2000 it was 2,603,607. The total population changed 4.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (1,471,880) represent 59.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,332,704) include 51.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 46 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 46 groups had 1,348,840 adherents in 1990 and 1,304,121 adherents in 2000, for a change of -3.3%

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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