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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
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +8 -1,198 -13.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 -180 -11.3%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +425 6.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +684 7.1%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 -325 -20.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +272 143.2%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 -34 -11.4%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +480 19.5%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -69 -22.3%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +1 n.a. n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 -239 -48.5%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +695 18.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -202 -7.7%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +217 131.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -946 -18.9%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -6 -5.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -57 -7.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +92 40.7%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -16 -0.7%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +68 n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +15 29.4%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +77 5.3%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +26 22.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +25 147.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +7 5.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +91 2.5%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 0 -6 -1.6%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +201 16.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -84 -25.2%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -385 -36.2%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -269 -4.9%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -76 -38.2%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -61 -3.5%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant -1 -180 -63.4%
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +41,750 43.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +24 6.5%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 -25 -18.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -810 -21.8%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant -1 +434 33.8%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 -750 -46.9%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant -1 -349 -26.2%
  Totals: +19 +39,316 +23.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 480,628; in 2000 it was 563,598. The total population changed 17.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (176,314) represent 36.7% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 40 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 40 groups had 168,213 adherents in 1990 and 207,529 adherents in 2000, for a change of 23.4%

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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