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