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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	19	1,770	0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	114	36,184	5.1
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	8	3,374	0.5
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	2	1,804	0.3
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	2,800	0.4
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	3	3,388	0.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	217	47,859	6.8
Bahá'í	Other Theology	77	5,469	0.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	35	30,600	4.4
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	424	0.1
Buddhism	Other Theology	187	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	19	n.a.	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	309	1,676,993	238.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	47	8,800	1.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	25	3,601	0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	36	8,590	1.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,378	0.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,613	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	39	3,703	0.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	17	838	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	220	87,993	12.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	88	0.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	59	11,860	1.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	104	12,021	1.7
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	7	0.0
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	804	0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	52	14,504	2.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,039	0.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	126	44,953	6.4
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	31	8,147	1.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	25	6,967	1.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	109	36,328	5.2
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	894	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,076	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	12	770	0.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	24	4,022	0.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	12	13,068	1.9
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis	Orthodox	2	662	0.1
Hindu	Other Theology	50	n.a.	n.a.
Holy Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	1	30	0.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	14,950	2.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	22	18,483	2.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	52	8,653	1.2
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	3,656	0.5
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	5	1,601	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	24	3,955	0.6
Jain	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	103	218,700	31.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	77	25,535	3.6
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the	Orthodox	1	150	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,540	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	133	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.0
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	47	79,547	11.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	5	497	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	9	546	0.1
New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Baptist Associations/Fellowships	Evangelical Protestant	41	7,419	1.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	524	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Bulgarian Diocese	Orthodox	3	799	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	2	470	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	10	2,686	0.4
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	738	0.1
Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	29	4,821	0.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	144	57,061	8.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,634	0.2
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	6	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	2,035	0.3
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	10	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	35	7,551	1.1
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	2	400	0.1
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA (New Gracanica Metropolitanate)	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	80	26,389	3.8
Sikh	Other Theology	15	n.a.	n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	287	71,597	10.2
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	150	0.0
Tao	Other Theology	12	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	318	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	18	5,086	0.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	81	16,580	2.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	142	56,564	8.0
United Reformed Churches in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	108	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	10	1,111	0.2
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,332	0.5
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	250	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,893	0.3
Zoroastrian	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	3,429	2,732,898
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		3,226,386

The population of these 10 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 6,253,311; in 2000 it was 7,039,362. The total population changed 12.6%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,732,898) include 38.8% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (3,226,386) include 45.8% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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