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Denominational Groups, 2000

45,155 16,709 903 138,485 13,832 348,514
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 Association, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -236 -29.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -2 -40 -2.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +7 +2,041 40.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 -114 -30.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +11 12.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant -1 -208 -67.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +62,940 83.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,213 604.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -94 -11.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +118 42.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,453 98.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -485 -67.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 +67 27.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +2 +110 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +14 +4,423 75.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 -523 -29.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -536 -20.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +68 n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +1 +132 11.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +66 n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 -777 -34.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +172 29.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +462 n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 -231 -7.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -213 -60.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -23 -35.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +903 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +985 134.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +137 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +104 14.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +503 16.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 0 +113 43.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +4 +254 n.a.
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,391 46.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +13 +985 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -170 -6.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +431 45.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +115 43.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +339 9.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,236 19.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -18 -7.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -1,145 -63.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -1,122 -18.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -3 -5.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -100 -45.0%
  Totals: +73 +74,734 +54.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 347,342; in 2000 it was 563,598. The total population changed 17.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (137,504) represent 39.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (215,084) include 38.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 45 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 45 groups had 136,383 adherents in 1980 and 211,117 adherents in 2000, for a change of 54.8%

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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