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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	125	431,477	121.4
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	730	0.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	141	61,042	17.2
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	870	0.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	34	11,303	3.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	315	0.1
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	24	n.a.	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	49	13,944	3.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	37	15,845	4.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	18	3,347	0.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	18	1,972	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,264	0.4
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	10	384	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	736	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	50	16,943	4.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	61	8,158	2.3
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,052	0.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	27	7,225	2.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	13	0.0
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	30	7,646	2.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	20	2,972	0.8
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	806	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	25	5,074	1.4
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	36	6,016	1.7
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	18	29,780	8.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	18	24,145	6.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	75	21,263	6.0
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	601	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	186	0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	59	23,569	6.6
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	4	317	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	200	0.1
Mennonite; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	1	14	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	0.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	84	0.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,097	0.6
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	453	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	165	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,967	0.6
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,681	1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	62	14,850	4.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	101	27,199	7.7
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,996	0.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,438	0.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	75	22,832	6.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	25	5,629	1.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	69	26,817	7.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	148	77,064	21.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	17	919	0.3
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	5	993	0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	316	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	107	43,793	12.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	1,312	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	43	9,489	2.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	110	38,149	10.7
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	163	0.1
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	2	494	0.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	280	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	924	0.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	3,084	0.9
Holy Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	2	184	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	77	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	721	0.2
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	400	0.1
Bahá'í	Other Theology	55	3,713	1.0
Buddhism	Other Theology	69	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	230	92,214	25.9
Hindu	Other Theology	16	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	28	39,760	11.2
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	11	12,317	3.5
Sikh	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Tao	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	16	3,869	1.1
Zoroastrian	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,251	1,140,803
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		1,307,279

The population of these 6 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,970,328; in 2000 it was 3,554,760. The total population changed 19.7%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,140,803) include 32.1% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (1,307,279) include 36.8% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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