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West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

103,789 51,270 3,666 300,456 173,363 498,640
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 178 0.2
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America Evangelical Protestant 1 154 0.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 14 4,540 5.3
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 32,855 38.1
Catholic Church Catholic 32 108,913 126.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 8 943 1.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 4 870 1.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 993 1.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 940 1.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 3 631 0.7
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 7 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 5 675 0.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 22 4,583 5.3
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 23 0.0
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 8 326 0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 8 2,477 2.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 12 1,965 2.3
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 14 2,070 2.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 22 11,915 13.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 200 0.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 12 6,546 7.6
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 4 193 0.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 62 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 7 4,750 5.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 2 18 0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 2 345 0.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 18 112,000 129.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 8 4,933 5.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 52 0.1
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 101 0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 15 7,405 8.6
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 8 3,409 4.0
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 213 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 237 0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 12 2,842 3.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 39 36,667 42.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 508 0.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 7 3,703 4.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 24 20,204 23.4
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 70 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 169 0.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 347 379,678  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 863,518. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (379,678) include 44.0% 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.