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Denominational Groups, 2000

297,366	164,169	12,793	368,580	64,224	1,488,865
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	747	0.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	676	0.4
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,538	1.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	4	1,703	1.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	55	12,826	8.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	473	0.3
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	183	0.1
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	3	57	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	131	0.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	56	186,126	115.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,182	0.7
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	7	450	0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	13	4,544	2.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	22	10,004	6.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	173	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	18	4,338	2.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	47	7,854	4.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	11	4,729	2.9
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	330	0.2
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	0.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	26	4,831	3.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	73	8,787	5.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	315	0.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,152	0.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	41	24,761	15.4
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	421	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	127	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	34	17,229	10.7
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,839	1.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	94	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	313	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	509	0.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	9	4,760	3.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	141	0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	20	12,219	7.6
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	315	0.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,975	1.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	58	28,904	17.9
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	5	665	0.4
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	1,312	0.8
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,837	1.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	4,924	3.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	186	133,054	82.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	975	0.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	16	8,412	5.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	106	84,817	52.6
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	540	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,053	0.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	941	585,446

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,613,603. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (585,446) include 36.3% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.