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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 % Change
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +238 58.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +809 43.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +3,005 27.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +106 89.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +26 4.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 +26 108.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +3 +298 71.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +7 +349 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +991 87.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -18 -7.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +626 63.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 +1,032 26.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +427 90.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +22 314.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +393 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +400 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +33 75.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,413 88.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +1,652 302.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +266 51.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 +103 n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +38 49.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 +864 24.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +423 94.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -146 -57.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +43 9.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +15 +9,735 36.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +52 38.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 +60 82.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -2 +2,003 18.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -7 -14.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +61 n.a.
  Totals: +40 +25,323 +37.8%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 190,220; in 2000 it was 284,539. The total population changed 21.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (67,160) represent 35.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (103,150) include 36.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 32 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 32 groups had 67,069 adherents in 1980 and 92,392 adherents in 2000, for a change of 37.8%

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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