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Metro Area Membership Report
Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV CMSA
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
% Change |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
+14 |
+357,142 |
32.6% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+154 |
+31,265 |
13.1% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
+44 |
+29,107 |
38.4% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+31 |
+10,288 |
32.2% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+26 |
+9,844 |
48.0% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+42 |
+9,597 |
24.5% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+11 |
+6,835 |
48.1% |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+6,343 |
5156.9% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+10 |
+6,090 |
117.3% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
+18 |
+5,705 |
2.1% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+18 |
+5,562 |
17.7% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+4,855 |
208.5% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
+3,934 |
11.4% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+11 |
+1,891 |
247.2% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
+1,690 |
1.2% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+1,526 |
54.7% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
-2 |
+1,512 |
13.1% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+1,487 |
232.7% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+1,409 |
18.1% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+12 |
+1,258 |
10.7% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-12 |
+1,132 |
12.9% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+999 |
79.5% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+666 |
21.6% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+575 |
16.0% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+561 |
55.3% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+499 |
45.9% |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
+1 |
+476 |
328.3% |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+312 |
113.5% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+131 |
15.9% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+119 |
23.7% |
| International Pentecostal Church of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+84 |
22.7% |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+68 |
6.5% |
| Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+23 |
43.4% |
| Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+9 |
31.0% |
| Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-1 |
-4.0% |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-11 |
-24.4% |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-17 |
-31.5% |
| Church of God General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-30 |
-23.8% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-68 |
-0.6% |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-115 |
-64.6% |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-172 |
-20.1% |
| Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
-195 |
-16.4% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
-196 |
-12.0% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
-203 |
-35.6% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-3 |
-281 |
-0.2% |
| Churches of God, General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-357 |
-23.5% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
+1 |
-464 |
-4.5% |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
-1 |
-720 |
-72.0% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-11 |
-1,027 |
-35.5% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
-4 |
-1,160 |
-30.6% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
+7 |
-1,937 |
-2.4% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-3 |
-2,735 |
-8.8% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
-2,919 |
-7.9% |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
0 |
-3,076 |
-76.9% |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-10 |
-4,623 |
-22.1% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-21 |
-6,748 |
-1.9% |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| 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. |
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Totals:
+366
| +475,939 |
+17.3% |
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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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