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Denominational Groups, 2000

13,743 18,908 2,211 23,763 478 72,905
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
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +2 +1,275 n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +2 +916 107.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +315 n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +289 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +229 175.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +2 +126 n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +120 n.a.
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +80 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +19 2.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +2 +9 1.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -43 -31.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -82 -33.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -101 -49.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -105 -26.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -2 -114 -26.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 -197 -63.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -271 -15.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -384 -33.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -432 -23.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -526 -59.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -533 -81.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -535 -26.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -2 -736 -66.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -849 -64.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -2 -1,384 -31.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 -2,444 -41.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -4,557 -32.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -4,854 -53.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -9 -14,791 -38.0%
  Totals: -12 -29,560 -33.7%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 163,099; in 2000 it was 132,008. The total population changed -7.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (87,633) represent 53.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (59,103) include 44.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 87,608 adherents in 1980 and 58,048 adherents in 2000, for a change of -33.7%

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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