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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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	71	316,541	153.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	199	154,165	74.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	112	89,822	43.4
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	57,563	27.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	60	29,838	14.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	43	24,217	11.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	17	23,000	11.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	41	21,699	10.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	75	21,418	10.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	29	15,912	7.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	58	14,448	7.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	23	13,243	6.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	88	12,646	6.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	28	10,589	5.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	19	8,369	4.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	19	7,100	3.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	27	6,546	3.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	40	6,104	3.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	4,900	2.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	13	4,083	2.0
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,847	1.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	2,140	1.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	20	2,110	1.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,820	0.9
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,545	0.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	1,502	0.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,371	0.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,315	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,240	0.6
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,040	0.5
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	2	1,000	0.5
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	994	0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	944	0.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	7	886	0.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	747	0.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	676	0.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	671	0.3
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	8	669	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	637	0.3
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	531	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	12	501	0.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	349	0.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	337	0.2
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	327	0.2
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	6	289	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	242	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	215	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	209	0.1
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	205	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	177	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	121	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	117	0.1
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	3	64	0.0
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	1	62	0.0
Jasper Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	58	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	53	0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	51	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.0
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	6	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	16	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	9	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	6	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,219	871,357

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,067,959. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (871,357) include 42.1% 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.