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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +8 -2,259 -5.9%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 0 +941 109.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +25 +3,584 8.1%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +13 +26,263 605.6%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 +37 9.6%
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +233,773 16.2%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 -1,776 -16.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -205 -5.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -4 +396 4.8%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +2 +299 14.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -5 +152 10.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +14 +1,556 72.5%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +3 +286 51.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology -7 -8,979 -9.3%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -28 -24.1%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 +968 8.9%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 -2,067 -14.7%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -18 -72.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +10 n.a. n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant -1 +71 7.3%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +3 -1,714 -3.7%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,732 33.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -6,458 -15.1%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +25 2.4%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -520 -40.3%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox -1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -15 -8,335 -35.8%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,533 9.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +8 +2,968 52.2%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +7 +944 31.4%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +35 +19,850 10.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -2 -1,837 -6.7%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +2 +703 84.0%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -1 -102 -43.4%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -50 -76.9%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant -1 -259 -34.3%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant -1 -490 -47.3%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +445 563.3%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox -3 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +4 +2,277 89.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +4 -7,198 -11.2%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +10 +1,191 268.8%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 +758 59.4%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +7 +4,903 185.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -2 -2,030 -7.1%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +57 -17,631 -19.8%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox 0 -250 -62.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +52 1.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 -2,825 -14.6%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -3 +2,119 3.9%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +123 96.9%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +160 9.2%
  Totals: +180 +243,078 +10.4%

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 adherent totals for 1990 (2,477,664) represent 39.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (2,732,898) include 38.8% 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 2,328,553 adherents in 1990 and 2,571,631 adherents in 2000, for a change of 10.4%

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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