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Spokane, WA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

43,397 32,207 776 57,187 17,351 267,021
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
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +57 76.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -283 -16.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +5 +876 25.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +27 96.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -102 -38.0%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +10,186 22.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +616 163.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -3 -1,750 -57.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +469 69.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +48 34.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -454 -61.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 -43 -46.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +38 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +19 +4,288 43.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +186 7.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -265 -23.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -3 -1,437 -64.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -1,705 -32.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -57 -20.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +188 150.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -1,007 -9.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +50 6.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +2 +121 105.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +546 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +600 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +6 +5,910 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +3,306 475.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +15 42.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +1,318 724.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +567 15.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +123 33.0%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -16 -17.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +80 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +3 -500 -6.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +123 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +20 2.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +653 22.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +1 +3,981 86.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +110 29.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -3 -1,061 -59.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -1,218 -18.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +37 123.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +99 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +61 28.0%
  Totals: +41 +24,801 +20.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 341,835; in 2000 it was 417,939. The total population changed 15.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (125,061) represent 36.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (150,918) include 36.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 44 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 44 groups had 123,658 adherents in 1980 and 148,459 adherents in 2000, for a change of 20.1%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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