San Diego, CA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

167,217	97,790	6,729	829,933	128,394	1,583,770
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	92	308,464	165.7
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	179	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,598	0.9
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	352	0.2
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	44	10,920	5.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	12	6,969	3.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,530	0.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	650	0.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,376	1.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,101	0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,565	1.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	381	0.2
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	13	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	255	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,581	2.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	40	6,365	3.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,828	1.5
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,838	1.0
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	920	0.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	257	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	774	0.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,587	0.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	155	0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	31	13,486	7.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	70	0.0
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	395	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	3,375	1.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	26	9,294	5.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	58	28,411	15.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,187	0.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	25	7,112	3.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	13	4,703	2.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	32	18,381	9.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	35	16,894	9.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	6	407	0.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	47	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	533	0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	31	22,615	12.2
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	531	0.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	25	7,458	4.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	42	23,856	12.8
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	750	0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	76	31,872	17.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	8	4,465	2.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	5	1,154	0.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	742	553,787

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,861,846. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (553,787) include 29.7% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.