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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 Association, The Evangelical Protestant -4 -767 -30.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +9 -619 -2.0%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox +2 +1,804 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +65 +11,974 33.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +19 +26,337 618.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 -487 -54.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -5 +649,366 63.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +20 +2,737 45.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -3 -1,740 -33.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -4 -50 -1.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,000 73.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -2,752 -63.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +12 +2,284 161.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +17 +838 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +50 +3,676 4.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -57 -39.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,777 31.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -2,854 -19.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +7 n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +25 -2,151 -13.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +139 15.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +5 -10,588 -19.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant +14 +3,778 86.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +8 +3,847 123.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +7 -9,589 -21.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -2 -2,767 -72.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +2 -133 -15.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +12 +13,068 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +7 +14,950 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +22 +18,483 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +34 +5,573 181.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +21 +3,848 3596.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +73 +198,834 1001.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -4 -7,592 -23.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +5 +578 60.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -81 -84.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant -2 -841 -63.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +9 +546 n.a.
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +279 114.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +2 +470 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +10 +2,686 n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +303 70.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +29 +4,821 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +9 -6,107 -10.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +18 +1,555 1968.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant +2 +1,306 179.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +19 +2,822 60.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +11 +2,631 11.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +112 +3,303 5.0%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox +1 +150 n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +2 +420 9.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +11 -4,726 -22.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -238 0.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +6 -279 -20.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +250 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +510 37.0%
  Totals: +667 +933,532 +55.6%

The population of these 10 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 5,367,925; in 2000 it was 7,039,362. The total population changed 12.6%. The adherent totals for 1980 (1,689,652) represent 31.5% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 56 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 56 groups had 1,680,460 adherents in 1980 and 2,613,992 adherents in 2000, for a change of 55.6%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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