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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -2 -737 -30.7%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 +14 233.3%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +9 +1,089 21.5%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +18,466 34.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +206 101.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -191 -32.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +230 27.5%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -60 -12.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +224 84.5%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 -18 -14.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +344 +82,707 11.7%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 +1,073 233.8%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -40 -6.3%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +854 21.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +375 86.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +734 15.9%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 +10 14.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -2 -150 -15.8%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +416 71.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +4 +1,400 47.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 +52 1.5%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +25 6.2%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -79 -51.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -537 -10.8%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +398 560.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -276 -26.5%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +3 +526 6.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +191 26.6%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 -460 -28.8%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +2 +55 1.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +213 157.8%
  Totals: +363 +106,710 +13.1%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,072,227; in 2000 it was 1,333,914. The total population changed 24.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (817,180) represent 76.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (931,499) include 69.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 31 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 31 groups had 812,968 adherents in 1990 and 919,678 adherents in 2000, for a change of 13.1%

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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