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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	% Change
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+44	+29,107	38.4%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	+1	+476	328.3%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-11	-24.4%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	-3,076	-76.9%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+18	+5,562	17.7%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-195	-16.4%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	31.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+6,343	5156.9%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-115	-64.6%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-172	-20.1%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+312	113.5%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+14	+357,142	32.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+575	16.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	+1,512	13.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-12	+1,132	12.9%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+119	23.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+666	21.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+26	+9,844	48.0%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-30	-23.8%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+499	45.9%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+42	+9,597	24.5%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-68	-0.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,409	18.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+1,258	10.7%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-357	-23.5%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-17	-31.5%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+23	43.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	+1,690	1.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,487	232.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-3	-281	-0.2%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,526	54.7%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+131	15.9%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-1,160	-30.6%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-10	-4,623	-22.1%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-5	+3,934	11.4%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+999	79.5%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+84	22.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+1,891	247.2%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+18	+5,705	2.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-2,919	-7.9%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-11	-1,027	-35.5%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1	-4.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	+68	6.5%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-196	-12.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	-1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-203	-35.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+7	-1,937	-2.4%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+6,835	48.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+4,855	208.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+31	+10,288	32.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+154	+31,265	13.1%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	-1	-720	-72.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	-464	-4.5%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-3	-2,735	-8.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-21	-6,748	-1.9%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+6,090	117.3%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+561	55.3%
	Totals:	+366	+475,939	+17.3%

The population of these 33 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 6,727,050; in 2000 it was 7,608,070. The total population changed 13.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (3,229,219) represent 48.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (3,441,674) include 45.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 57 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 57 groups had 2,755,487 adherents in 1990 and 3,231,426 adherents in 2000, for a change of 17.3%

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 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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