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Denominational Groups, 2000

59,652 23,589 393 14,095 5,421 181,389
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 Adherence Rate
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 46 32,788 140.4
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 20,239 86.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 22 11,603 49.7
Catholic Church Catholic 7 10,394 44.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 12 4,802 20.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 9 4,315 18.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 4 3,975 17.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 10 2,877 12.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 15 2,062 8.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 7 1,907 8.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 9 1,614 6.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 1,500 6.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 785 3.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 647 2.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 621 2.7
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 5 607 2.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 4 524 2.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 383 1.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 298 1.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 5 218 0.9
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 3 160 0.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 159 0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 140 0.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 122 0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 83 0.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 71 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 66 0.3
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 41 0.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 38 0.2
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 23 0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 20 0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 17 0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 12 0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 186 103,111  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 233,598. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (103,111) include 44.1% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.