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