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Springfield, IL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

44,074 29,638 171 38,197 2,568 86,789
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 24 38,553 205.3
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 11,424 60.8
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 100 0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 20 6,250 33.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 945 5.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 177 0.9
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 147 0.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 1,301 6.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 624 3.3
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 22 0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 104 0.6
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 270 1.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 480 2.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 13 7,969 42.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 600 3.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 154 0.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 12 4,420 23.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 9 3,993 21.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 5 2,097 11.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 1,819 9.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 3,586 19.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 5 0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 19 7,480 39.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 1,201 6.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 37 14,734 78.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 541 2.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 750 4.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 83 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 188 109,879  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 187,789. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (109,879) include 58.5% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.