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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 23 36,671 193.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 35 13,230 69.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 21 9,999 52.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 14 8,522 45.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 7,967 42.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 17 6,284 33.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 16 5,493 29.0
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 4,424 23.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 10 4,424 23.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 3,811 20.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 6 1,609 8.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 1,370 7.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 1,165 6.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 1,046 5.5
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 1,000 5.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 700 3.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 610 3.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 455 2.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 450 2.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 352 1.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 291 1.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 227 1.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 177 0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 172 0.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 163 0.9
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 120 0.6
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 105 0.6
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 81 0.4
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 61 0.3
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 38 0.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 33 0.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 18 0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 17 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 9 0.1
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 202 111,094  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 189,550. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (111,094) include 58.6% 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.