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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	160	0.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,741	0.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	106	38,443	6.2
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	2	863	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	0.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	192	44,275	7.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	22	4,337	0.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	387	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	141,337	22.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	310	1,443,220	230.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	44	10,576	1.7
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,470	0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	25	3,806	0.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	40	8,194	1.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,079	0.3
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	70	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	25	1,461	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	25	2,147	0.3
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	138	0.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	14	552	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	227	96,972	15.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	116	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	2	196	0.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	57	10,892	1.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	102	14,088	2.3
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	42	n.a.	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	968	0.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	123	46,667	7.5
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	92	0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	23	5,235	0.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	109	42,786	6.8
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,051	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	13	1,290	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	13	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	6	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	22	23,285	3.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	20	16,950	2.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	44	5,685	0.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	3,011	0.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	68	198,850	31.8
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	492	0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	79	27,372	4.4
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	8	837	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	235	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	6	756	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,036	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	79	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	15	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	13	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	25	2,544	0.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	140	64,259	10.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	10	443	0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	4	164	0.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	1,277	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	28	2,648	0.4
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	82	28,419	4.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	230	89,228	14.3
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	400	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	18	5,034	0.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	80	19,405	3.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	145	54,445	8.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	127	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,733	0.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,761	2,477,664

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 6,253,311. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,477,664) include 39.6% 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.