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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
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+13	+39,376	266.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-35	+12,344	2.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+33	+10,784	6.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+6,880	62.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+5,900	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+23	+5,499	90.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+5,259	311.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+5,243	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+3	+3,906	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+3,715	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+2,934	3714.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+1,891	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+17	+1,824	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+1,574	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-8	+1,317	46.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,078	32.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+657	75.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-4	+386	10.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+384	34.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+341	40.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+2	+322	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	+1	+300	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+285	n.a.
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	+225	203.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	+179	90.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+171	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	+145	1.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+91	30.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+78	18.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+71	1.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+34	27.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+22	7.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+10	7.0%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-9	-17.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-16	-9.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-18	-12.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-25	-13.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-43	-96.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-81	-54.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-243	-80.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-307	-37.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-583	-6.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+4	-656	-4.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-1,084	-9.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	-1,705	-12.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-1,832	-18.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-5	-4,174	-20.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-4,763	-66.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-5,954	-6.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-14	-11,631	-16.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-22	-17,731	-38.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-15	-20,706	-24.0%
	Totals:	87	41,664	+3.3%

The population of these 12 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 2,414,091; in 2000 it was 2,603,607. The total population changed 4.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (1,273,474) represent 52.8% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 52 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 52 groups had 1,268,816 adherents in 1980 and 1,310,480 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 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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