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Shreveport-Bossier City, LA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

152,112 36,992 610 23,671 4,421 174,496
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
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 24 3,544 9.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 0 0.0
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The Orthodox 1 94 0.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 33 9,695 24.7
Bahá'í Other Theology 1 132 0.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 10 3,171 8.1
Catholic Church Catholic 18 23,671 60.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 1,481 3.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 875 2.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 5 600 1.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 308 0.8
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 68 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 5 1,852 4.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 8 1,040 2.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 33 4,784 12.2
Coptic Orthodox Church Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 7 4,455 11.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 763 1.9
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 45 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 516 1.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 4,000 10.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 356 0.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 400 1.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 1,134 2.9
Muslim Estimate Other Theology 3 1,827 4.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 21 0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 15 3,021 7.7
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 82 0.2
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line Evangelical Protestant 3 n.a. n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 1,236 3.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 6 1,028 2.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 116 119,676 305.1
Southwide Baptist Fellowship Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 210 0.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 57 27,272 69.5
Vineyard USA Evangelical Protestant 2 323 0.8
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 126 0.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 388 217,806  
Total (Adjusted)**:   329,861  
The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 376,330; in 2000 it was 392,302. The total population changed 4.2%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (217,806) include 55.5% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (329,861) include 84.1% 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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