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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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+416,908	100.9%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	0	+15	40.5%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+74	67.3%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+788	4.9%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+192	342.9%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-31	-0.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-106	-5.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-2,040	-36.2%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	-6	-1,031	-59.8%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+685	66.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-239	-30.1%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+29	9.1%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+10	4.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+6	-46	-0.9%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-1,753	-18.9%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+61	88.4%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-573	-27.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+3,781	148.3%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+347	1119.4%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-119	-19.3%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-10	-9,955	-76.5%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-11,050	-41.5%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-5,773	-70.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-67	-19.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-1,518	-10.3%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1	8.3%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-30	-36.1%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+894	519.8%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-1	0	0.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-21	-5.6%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+893	84.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+3,696	450.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-1,167	-9.1%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+31	-3,076	-10.2%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+6,516	73.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-148	-9.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-537	-10.9%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	+592	13.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,458	-8.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+2	-814	-4.4%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-103	-18.2%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	-128	-12.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,191	-4.7%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-90	-15.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-3	-1,799	-21.5%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	-3,398	-14.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+5	-595	-1.3%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+12	0	0.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-111	-5.8%
	Totals:	+50	+386,515	+47.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 2,498,016; in 2000 it was 2,813,833. The total population changed 12.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (858,051) represent 34.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,230,063) include 43.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 49 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 49 groups had 812,491 adherents in 1990 and 1,199,006 adherents in 2000, for a change of 47.6%

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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