Springfield, MA NECMA

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,503	39,024	3,842	274,349	18,127	261,634
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 Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+2	-245	-3.9%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	-1,120	-80.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+7	-246	-7.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-3	+55,945	25.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+52	31.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+134	23.1%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+68	194.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+180	13.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+85	51.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-159	-39.4%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-60	-52.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,699	-21.3%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+230	153.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+213	7.3%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-71	-32.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+150	30.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-2	+100	0.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+52	2.3%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-285	-34.2%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	-1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-239	-35.8%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+31	26.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+196	69.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+216	28.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-101	-20.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-1	+160	15.6%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-3	-4,687	-22.2%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,079	-16.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-100	-48.3%
	Totals:	0	+47,721	+16.4%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 602,878; in 2000 it was 608,479. The total population changed 0.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (301,386) represent 50.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (346,845) include 57.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 28 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 28 groups had 291,689 adherents in 1990 and 339,410 adherents in 2000, for a change of 16.4%

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 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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