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Denominational Groups, 2000

27,391 88,122 3,587 214,304 15,958 382,755
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
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +3 +635 583.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +304 245.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +2 +6,311 203.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +553 95.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,166 79.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +2 +378 66.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant 0 +33 49.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +147 40.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +477 36.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +501 35.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 +250 32.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +264 30.0%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 +12 21.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +18 18.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -3 +508 6.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -41 -8.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +2 -25,089 -10.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -92 -10.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -120 -10.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -5 -1,262 -10.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +3 -225 -11.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +6 -646 -18.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -6 -13,695 -25.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -291 -27.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -4 -1,872 -37.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -7 -6,080 -39.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -2 -371 -39.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -133 -42.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -26 -46.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -5 -10,076 -52.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +13 +2,612 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +3 +424 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +3,200 n.a.
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant +1 +130 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +16 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,525 n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +927 n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +103 n.a.
  Totals: 19 -39,525 -10.5%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 722,865; in 2000 it was 732,117. The total population changed -1.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (379,728) represent 52.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (349,362) include 47.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 38 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 38 groups had 377,977 adherents in 1980 and 338,452 adherents in 2000, for a change of -10.5%

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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