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Youngstown-Warren, OH MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

51,719 82,862 7,870 165,490 5,915 280,890
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 4 1,668 2.8
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 4 145 0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 16 5,248 8.7
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 2 284 0.5
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 36 0.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 28 7,462 12.4
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 4 1,361 2.3
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 18,796 31.3
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 1 101 0.2
Catholic Church Catholic 79 177,283 295.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 956 1.6
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 7 0.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 26 11,093 18.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 32 10,366 17.3
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 3 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 11 1,608 2.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 9 985 1.6
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant 1 108 0.2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 90 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,140 1.9
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 5 536 0.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 25 5,824 9.7
Church of the United Brethren in Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 112 0.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 17 1,999 3.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 254 0.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 10 2,996 5.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The Evangelical Protestant 3 659 1.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 40 17,515 29.2
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 435 0.7
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 8 642 1.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 12 2,196 3.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 4 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 300 0.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 6 3,750 6.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 4 206 0.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 8 3,960 6.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 7 1,804 3.0
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 6 587 1.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 2 398 0.7
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 2 248 0.4
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 5 750 1.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 4 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 3 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 61 19,530 32.5
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 433 0.7
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 1 149 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 510 0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 7 1,014 1.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 26 4,989 8.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 200 0.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 15 7,250 12.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 86 31,494 52.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 65 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 614 349,542  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 600,895. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (349,542) include 58.2% 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.