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Denominational Groups, 2000

254,937 109,596 712 43,854 12,140 381,996
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
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +365 50.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 +147 14.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +3,003 19.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 -64 -10.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +2 +16,342 59.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +334 n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -3 -2,001 -19.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +349 3.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -2,897 -69.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -3 +209 31.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +16 +583 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +8 +2,814 108.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 +450 9.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -2,020 -14.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant +2 +179 n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -121 -43.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +2 -14 0.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +2 +455 17.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -236 -92.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -76 -24.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +396 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +7 +5,100 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,200 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +314 127.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +2,844 138.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +999 60.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,568 40.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 0 +219 66.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +47 +5,609 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +6 +417 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -3,658 -24.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +293 142.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +4,868 424.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +4 +516 32.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +37 +29,335 21.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +2 +107 7.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 +142 52.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 +17,985 30.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -106 -59.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +91 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -31 -17.0%
  Totals: +148 +86,009 +26.1%

The population of these 5 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 657,173; in 2000 it was 803,235. The total population changed 13.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (330,259) represent 50.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (421,239) include 52.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 41 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 41 groups had 329,766 adherents in 1980 and 415,775 adherents in 2000, for a change of 26.1%

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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