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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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	870	362,170	53.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	479	238,169	35.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	346	1,095,984	162.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	299	136,638	20.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	252	129,615	19.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	211	80,691	12.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	128	31,455	4.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	123	75,878	11.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	118	270,740	40.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	98	39,233	5.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	93	31,954	4.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	89	30,979	4.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	84	20,499	3.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	76	36,940	5.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	67	14,215	2.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	61	11,753	1.8
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	57	11,906	1.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	52	8,743	1.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	46	11,540	1.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	45	7,776	1.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	40	34,361	5.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	39	n.a.	n.a.
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	36	2,895	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	33	3,600	0.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	33	57,159	8.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	31	3,084	0.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	27	2,743	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	27	10,367	1.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	26	1,086	0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	26	20,875	3.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	24	5,194	0.8
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	24	3,786	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,329	0.4
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	18	1,521	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	15	823	0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	12	196	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,256	0.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,632	0.2
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	10	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	10	n.a.	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	765	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	8	n.a.	n.a.
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	370	0.1
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,191	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	639	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	275	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,015	0.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	5	854	0.1
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,008	0.2
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	289	0.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	570	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	4	1,049	0.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,791	0.4
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	503	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	126	0.0
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	2	145	0.0
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	2	1,000	0.2
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	278	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	135	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	134	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	123	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	178	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	280	0.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.0
Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	187	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.0
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	517	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	45	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	4,000	0.6
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	1	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	410,625	61.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	4,179	3,229,219

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 6,727,050. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,229,219) include 48.0% 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.