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