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Denominational Groups, 2000

117,715 31,237 111 17,314 4,304 155,040
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
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +5,550 47.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +10 +9,957 93.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +90 n.a.
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +32 19.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +26 n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 +1,410 72.0%
Christian Union Evangelical Protestant -1 -2 -5.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -495 -67.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 +206 49.0%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +14 n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +32 n.a.
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -49 -68.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 -95 -5.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -8 -742 -13.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +82 45.0%
Fundamental Methodist Conference, Inc. Evangelical Protestant +4 +143 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,800 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,812 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +454 n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -74 -85.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,316 53.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +20 +2,135 n.a.
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +2 -397 -41.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +279 n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 +410 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +86 37.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -2 +131 19.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +8 +20,769 42.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +165 n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -506 -32.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +1 -252 -4.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 +2 0.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +365 47.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 +18 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -10 -354 -7.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -177 -22.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +3 +1,603 11.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +4 +2,000 176.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +164 121.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -23 -12.0%
  Totals: +54 +48,885 +40.9%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 228,118; in 2000 it was 325,721. The total population changed 23.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (119,660) represent 52.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (170,681) include 52.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 40 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 40 groups had 119,382 adherents in 1980 and 168,267 adherents in 2000, for a change of 40.9%

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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