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Denominational Groups, 2000

603,881	855,536	32,084	1,453,126	497,047	4,166,396
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	338	953,024	164.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	884	373,211	64.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	414	228,059	39.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	294	156,561	27.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	247	142,220	24.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	323	91,008	15.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	96	65,333	11.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	28	49,703	8.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	73	36,071	6.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	45	34,572	6.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	87	33,374	5.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	84	23,318	4.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	57	22,761	3.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	98	20,778	3.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	57	13,826	2.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	48	13,653	2.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	51	8,905	1.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	84	8,808	1.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	40	7,733	1.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	38	7,392	1.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	22	6,985	1.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	24	6,123	1.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	20	5,998	1.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	24	5,822	1.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	15	2,865	0.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,322	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,758	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	18	1,325	0.2
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,256	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,206	0.2
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	954	0.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	4	916	0.2
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	3	875	0.2
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	801	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	617	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	530	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	471	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	450	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	396	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	420	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	5	402	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	331	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	298	0.1
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	189	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	175	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	164	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	92	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	122	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	86	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	79	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	3,623	2,334,456

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 5,790,490. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,334,456) include 40.3% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.