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Sheboygan, WI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

27,792 22,905 216 29,983 535 31,215
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 18 31,346 301.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 25 19,763 190.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 21 9,687 93.3
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 8 4,681 45.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 6 4,212 40.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 7 3,177 30.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 4 1,598 15.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,361 13.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 1,083 10.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 908 8.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 856 8.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 731 7.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 2 595 5.7
Netherlands Reformed Congregations Evangelical Protestant 1 176 1.7
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 164 1.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 160 1.5
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 125 1.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 122 1.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 120 1.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 118 1.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 118 1.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 95 0.9
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 1 37 0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 35 0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 25 0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 4 0.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 125 81,297  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 103,877. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (81,297) include 78.3% 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.