Savannah, GA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

66,304	35,493	808	21,711	5,267	163,417
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
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,117	1175.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+124	87.3%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+251	62.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,042	47.2%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+142	17.5%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+3	+3,046	16.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+200	13.2%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	+532	11.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+51	10.9%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+10	10.4%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+250	9.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+19	8.4%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,306	2.8%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-10	-0.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-1	-0.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-79	-1.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-78	-2.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-20	-3.2%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-47	-3.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-994	-4.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	-145	-9.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-464	-12.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-27	-20.9%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-302	-44.9%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	-103	-50.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+13	+5,820	+4.8%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 258,060; in 2000 it was 293,000. The total population changed 13.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (160,524) represent 62.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (129,583) include 44.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 120,781 adherents in 1990 and 126,601 adherents in 2000, for a change of 4.8%

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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