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Denominational Groups, 2000

106,686 71,760 1,832 72,302 7,833 284,807
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -2 -988 -9.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 +5 8.8%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,058 20.5%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +13 18.6%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 0 -63 -51.2%
Catholic Church Catholic +4 +8,578 13.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -5 -502 -5.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 +5,701 52.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +3 -1,080 -22.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 -95 -11.1%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant +1 +299 46.1%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 -18 -20.9%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +4 +721 21.7%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -78 -9.8%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +619 12.9%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +51 1.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -769 -19.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +151 8.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +2 -183 -5.2%
Evangelical Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +139 121.9%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -58 -22.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +2 -1,031 -58.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -1,167 -63.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -9 -7,130 -83.6%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +349 66.6%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +212 40.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +300 30.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +118 1.4%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant -1 +87 8.1%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -9 -666 -10.8%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +204 105.7%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant -1 -1,022 -62.4%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 -18 -18.4%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +183 237.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -4 -2,015 -19.4%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +329 391.7%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant -2 +1,386 216.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 -64 -3.6%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +13 +2,465 7.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -38 -18.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -395 -20.6%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -2,322 -6.2%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +235 50.8%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -25 -16.0%
  Totals: +6 +3,476 +1.4%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 485,270; in 2000 it was 545,220. The total population changed 12.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (262,301) represent 54.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (260,413) include 47.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 44 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 44 groups had 248,893 adherents in 1990 and 252,369 adherents in 2000, for a change of 1.4%

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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