Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

323,813	227,476	6,164	431,477	151,873	2,413,957
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	Adherence Rate^†
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	184	80,552	27.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	149	79,805	26.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	141	44,929	15.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	127	329,191	110.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	105	40,696	13.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	104	44,495	15.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	79	26,515	8.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	79	24,217	8.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	66	27,627	9.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	57	8,394	2.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	57	23,747	8.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	49	13,660	4.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	48	10,965	3.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	44	11,064	3.7
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	41	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	41	15,270	5.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	38	9,048	3.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	36	13,477	4.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	32	4,741	1.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	30	23,915	8.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	28	8,064	2.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	26	6,478	2.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	25	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	21	2,677	0.9
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	21	6,583	2.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,809	0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,769	0.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	15	30,700	10.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	14	814	0.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	14	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	13	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	13	3,394	1.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	12	7,105	2.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,936	0.7
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,743	0.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,807	0.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	10	339	0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	10	836	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,275	0.4
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,517	0.5
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	7	538	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	6	829	0.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	1,787	0.6
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	569	0.2
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,232	0.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	517	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	188	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	708	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	276	0.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	612	0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	415	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	67	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	34	0.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	330	0.1
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	78	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	166	0.1
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	155	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	121	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	87	0.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	119	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	35,288	11.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,878	955,621

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,970,328. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (955,621) include 32.2% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga County are Episcopalian.