Wheeling, WV-OH MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,773	33,324	1,003	33,163	708	73,201
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
Catholic Church	Catholic	-7	-1,031	-3.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+65	10.9%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-5	-9.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-62	-23.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-285	-9.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-85	-18.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+7	2.3%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1	0.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-26	-1.0%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-65	-13.5%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-15.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+391	158.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-32	-27.6%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+363	35.2%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+15	21.4%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	+7	0.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	+356	9.7%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-382	-21.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-655	-12.6%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-433	-57.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,510	-20.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-235	-33.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-3,110	-17.9%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	0	+101	95.3%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	-1	-134	-23.7%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-2	-30	-13.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-2	-24	-28.2%
	Totals:	-15	-6,810	-8.0%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 159,301; in 2000 it was 153,172. The total population changed -3.8%. The adherent totals for 1990 (86,489) represent 54.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (79,971) include 52.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 27 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 27 groups had 84,745 adherents in 1990 and 77,935 adherents in 2000, for a change of -8.0%

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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