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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	+51	+27,371	21.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+30	+11,286	88.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+23	+10,249	130.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+18	+182,454	98.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+15	+40,455	850.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+15	+3,595	41.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+5,318	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+780	16.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+2,201	45.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+714	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+3,362	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+488	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+549	175.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+9	+3,362	71.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+8	+1,712	10.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,241	187.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+6	+9,030	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+6,878	69.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,056	208.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+467	40.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+2,000	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+406	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+525	4.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+555	303.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+3	-4,305	-17.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+649	511.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+3	-3,493	-12.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+928	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+3	+348	n.a.
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-67	-39.0%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	+2	+162	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-760	-41.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+2	+98	0.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+2	-2,501	-30.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+2	-42	-4.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,431	78.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	-792	-46.0%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	+1	+207	n.a.
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	+452	84.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-8	-8.0%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	+1	+300	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+332	32.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+77	18.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-539	-41.0%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-13	-18.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-104	-32.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-236	-50.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+464	18.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-649	-56.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-2,279	-52.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-255	-81.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-1,636	-36.0%
	Totals:	+325	+303,823	+52.3%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 1,613,603; in 2000 it was 2,395,997. The total population changed 15.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (585,446) represent 36.3% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 52 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 52 groups had 580,927 adherents in 1980 and 884,750 adherents in 2000, for a change of 52.3%

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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