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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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	198	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,598	0.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	25	4,934	2.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	3	110	0.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	59	15,982	6.4
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	17	7,691	3.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	42,478	17.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	105	413,025	165.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,064	0.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	803	0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	12	4,516	1.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	14	5,632	2.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,724	0.7
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	23	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,035	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	795	0.3
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	7	317	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	112	46,863	18.8
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	242	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	20	5,227	2.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	48	9,254	3.7
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	69	0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	11	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,107	0.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	39	17,742	7.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,549	1.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	37	18,687	7.5
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	175	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	617	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	565	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	13	13,005	5.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	17	26,630	10.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	26	8,242	3.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	348	0.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	17	70,000	28.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	34	0.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	36	14,789	5.9
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	83	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	172	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	5	1,010	0.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	61	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	374	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	31	25,199	10.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,057	0.4
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	596	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	821	0.3
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	31	12,846	5.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	73	30,304	12.1
The Protestant Conference (Lutheran)	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	1,913	0.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	26	8,385	3.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	46	24,197	9.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	8,924	3.6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,652	0.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,013	858,051

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 2,498,016. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (858,051) include 34.3% 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.