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Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

30,528 23,935 4,540 72,544 799,952 402,415
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 8 2,397 2.2
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 6 0.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 12 5,075 4.7
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 3,134 2.9
Catholic Church Catholic 29 54,078 50.4
Christ Catholic Church Evangelical Protestant 1 28 0.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 204 0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 582 0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 837 0.8
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 5 499 0.5
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 4 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 265 0.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 4 122 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1,518 708,047 660.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 459 0.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 639 0.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 6 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 8 4,067 3.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 3 435 0.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 8 4,608 4.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 68 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 3 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 950 0.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 3 1,050 1.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 6 580 0.5
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 2,950 2.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 8 3,430 3.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 403 0.4
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 2 154 0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 12 4,994 4.7
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 3 71 0.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 6 1,040 1.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 25 8,169 7.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 718 0.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 1,599 1.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 9 5,387 5.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 135 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 1,721 817,180  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,072,227. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (817,180) include 76.2% 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.