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San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

371,726 257,285 30,099 1,676,993 396,795 4,306,464
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 314 1,027,627 191.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 170 84,317 15.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 175 68,294 12.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 135 63,168 11.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 143 56,802 10.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 121 55,541 10.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 102 45,917 8.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 105 36,803 6.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 152 35,885 6.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 81 33,127 6.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 69 23,758 4.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 70 21,306 4.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 30 19,866 3.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 27 16,655 3.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 104 14,875 2.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 54 9,083 1.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 40 8,640 1.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 27 6,063 1.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 28 5,341 1.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 16 4,729 0.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 16 4,666 0.9
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 17 4,369 0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 21 4,365 0.8
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 16 4,263 0.8
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 16 3,843 0.7
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 10 3,611 0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 17 3,120 0.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 18 3,080 0.6
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 23 2,537 0.5
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 11 2,325 0.4
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 16 1,890 0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 27 1,419 0.3
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 4 1,390 0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 7 1,383 0.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 8 1,378 0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 7 1,338 0.3
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 5 962 0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 4 911 0.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 10 903 0.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 900 0.2
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 729 0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 662 0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 7 435 0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 1 298 0.1
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 245 0.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 145 0.0
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 142 0.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America Evangelical Protestant 1 119 0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 3 107 0.0
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 96 0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 83 0.0
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 79 0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 38 0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 24 0.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 2,246 1,689,652  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 5,367,925. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,689,652) include 31.5% 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.