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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 % Change
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +38 +6,260 4.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +12 +3,655 25.3%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +10 +2,694 12.6%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +7 +22,215 96.6%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +4 -24 -2.7%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +4 +45 6.7%
Catholic Church Catholic +3 +52,039 16.4%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +579 8.8%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 +361 23.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +2 -11 -1.2%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +32 15.6%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +401 119.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 -11 -9.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +991 14.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 -3,761 -15.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 -2,758 -12.7%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +601 183.8%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +928 145.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 -499 -3.8%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -4,427 -14.8%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +14 1.0%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 0 +145 233.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -171 -9.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +6,293 59.4%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -16 -6.6%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -264 -2.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +105 15.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -91 -51.4%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -54 -25.1%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 -909 -69.1%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -729 -48.5%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +2,028 163.5%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -485 -12.6%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 -493 -8.1%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -491 -49.4%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 +39 3.8%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -2,900 -59.2%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant -1 +10 19.6%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox -1 -700 -70.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -2,458 -29.4%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -2 -13 -2.6%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 n.a. n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -3 -1,229 -57.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -3 -51 -2.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -4 -1,175 -28.8%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -4 -4,907 -5.5%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -16 -10,594 -66.6%
  Totals: +57 +60,214 +7.4%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,067,959; in 2000 it was 2,395,997. The total population changed 15.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (871,357) represent 42.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (907,132) include 37.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 46 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 46 groups had 810,605 adherents in 1990 and 870,819 adherents in 2000, for a change of 7.4%

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 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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