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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 % Change
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant +1 +18 12.4%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -1,889 -36.0%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 0 +130 45.8%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 +16 44.4%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +7 +3,289 44.1%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -97 -7.1%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 0 +69 68.3%
Catholic Church Catholic -2 -11,793 -6.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +1,040 108.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -1,089 -9.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -4 -1,590 -15.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 -480 -29.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +736 74.7%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant 0 +27 25.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -1 -51 -56.7%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +532 46.7%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -29 -5.4%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 -1,056 -18.1%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -319 -16.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +47 18.5%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -619 -20.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 -1,700 -9.7%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +216 49.7%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -2 -153 -23.8%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 -817 -37.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,000 333.3%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -4 -2,650 -70.7%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +157 76.2%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -2 -410 -10.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -188 -10.4%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -2 -65 -11.1%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant -1 -66 -16.6%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 -23 -9.3%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +12 +507 67.6%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox -1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox -1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -4 -4,507 -23.1%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 -95 -21.9%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -88 -59.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,005 197.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -198 -19.5%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -4 -102 -2.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 -67 -33.5%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -1,031 -14.2%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -3,971 -12.6%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +4 6.2%
  Totals: -8 -26,350 -8.0%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 600,895; in 2000 it was 594,746. The total population changed -1.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (349,542) represent 58.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (313,856) include 52.8% 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 328,300 adherents in 1990 and 301,950 adherents in 2000, for a change of -8.0%

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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