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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 Association, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -548 -49.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -3 -1,494 -13.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant +1 +62 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,235 56.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -45 -35.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 0 -103 -63.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +5 +15,026 26.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -4 -3,376 -28.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 +7,426 81.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +4 -281 -7.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -2 +135 22.0%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant +1 +490 107.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +2 +68 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +7 +1,992 97.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 +48 7.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 -474 -8.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 -127 -2.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -1,046 -25.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -49 -46.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,524 447.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +107 3.0%
Evangelical Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +253 n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -434 -69.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +6 -878 -54.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 0 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +668 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,400 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant -1 -63 -7.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +301 70.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +809 165.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,420 19.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +1 +615 112.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +279 236.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +2 +616 n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +2 +80 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +260 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -1,987 -19.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 +413 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -401 -16.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +4 +376 28.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +14 +10,029 38.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -15 -8.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -937 -38.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -3,458 -9.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -102 -51.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +698 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +64 96.0%
  Totals: +75 +31,576 +14.6%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 441,844; in 2000 it was 545,220. The total population changed 12.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (216,617) represent 49.0% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 47 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 47 groups had 216,044 adherents in 1980 and 247,620 adherents in 2000, for a change of 14.6%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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