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Wilmington, NC MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

49,450 30,980 939 15,205 2,719 134,157
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
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 78 36,662 214.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 24 10,946 63.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 20 12,984 75.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 20 7,052 41.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 10 3,921 22.9
Catholic Church Catholic 8 5,742 33.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 8 1,284 7.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 6 2,416 14.1
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 6 587 3.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 438 2.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 5 545 3.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 436 2.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,292 7.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 254 1.5
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 3 130 0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 762 4.5
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 500 2.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 2 144 0.8
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 2 115 0.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 324 1.9
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 623 3.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 200 1.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 121 0.7
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 204 1.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 34 0.2
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 88 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 151 0.9
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province Mainline Protestant 1 175 1.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.2
Old Regular Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 15 0.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 82 0.5
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 1,555 9.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 114 0.7
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 11,421 66.7
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 230 101,342  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 171,269. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (101,342) include 59.2% 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.