Santa Fe, NM MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,504	9,897	98	55,614	4,860	68,662
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	0	-132	-12.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-55	-7.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-2	+17,614	46.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+123	105.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+615	199.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-125	-20.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+4	13.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	-74	-3.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-69	-35.9%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-59	-10.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+162	10.7%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+20	40.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+87	10.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+25	29.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	+800	69.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+66	18.2%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-634	-38.8%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+14	16.7%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+167	189.8%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+173	112.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-702	-12.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+126	27.2%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-111	-8.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-935	-25.9%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-80	-72.7%
	Totals:	+5	+17,020	+27.9%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 117,043; in 2000 it was 147,635. The total population changed 26.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (62,293) represent 53.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (78,973) include 53.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 25 groups had 61,055 adherents in 1990 and 78,075 adherents in 2000, for a change of 27.9%

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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