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	+702	333.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+220	206.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+73	192.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+585	173.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+141	142.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+1,006	92.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+277	88.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+181	73.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+167	51.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,712	50.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+11	48.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-2	+14,976	37.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+298	35.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	-114	-6.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-11	-8.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-57	-8.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-125	-20.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-238	-20.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	-808	-23.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-18	-38.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-898	-47.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-100	-50.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+70	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+4	+1,950	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+8	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+255	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+6	n.a.
	Totals:	+22	+20,269	+35.1%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 92,959; in 2000 it was 147,635. The total population changed 26.1%. The adherent totals for 1980 (57,820) represent 62.2% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 27 groups had 57,820 adherents in 1980 and 78,089 adherents in 2000, for a change of 35.1%

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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