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Denominational Groups, 2000

250,731 106,353 1,179 617,262 27,418 589,440
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 Association, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +418 418.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -873 -28.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +18 +4,885 75.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -1,027 -89.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -10 +217,941 55.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +15 14.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +2 -2,056 -39.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +174 7.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -638 -62.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +8 +1,493 158.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +2 +70 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +14 +6,616 121.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +5 +657 32.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +8 +2,913 30.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +91 26.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +2 -1,099 -7.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +3,592 990.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +7 -1 0.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -211 -88.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -121 -86.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +780 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +7 +44,510 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +9 +9,390 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +329 219.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +4 +389 385.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +2 +8,200 293.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +3,195 37.0%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +20 100.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +329 n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -9 -8.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +70 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 +2,809 28.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +3 +567 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +632 60.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +8 +879 64.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +79 +39,130 39.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +2 +134 30.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -2,531 -47.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +5 +7,994 19.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +3 2.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +324 259.0%
  Totals: +192 +349,983 +54.1%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 1,088,710; in 2000 it was 1,592,383. The total population changed 20.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (647,200) represent 59.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,002,943) include 63.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 41 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 41 groups had 646,901 adherents in 1980 and 996,884 adherents in 2000, for a change of 54.1%

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 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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