Arkansas

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,153,527	236,596	606	115,967	20,263	1,146,441
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	1,242	522,985	219.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	875	214,526	90.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	763	90,671	38.1
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	534	88,528	37.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	447	53,555	22.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	374	70,426	29.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	249	30,640	12.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	122	56,911	23.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	113	14,819	6.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	81	5,060	2.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	71	13,019	5.5
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	71	5,271	2.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	55	16,790	7.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	51	7,233	3.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	48	12,646	5.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	47	5,122	2.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	34	7,343	3.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	28	5,955	2.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	27	5,092	2.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	12	2,750	1.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	9	1,828	0.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,520	0.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	433	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	8	550	0.2
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	632	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	5	611	0.3
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	332	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	306	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	348	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	4	248	0.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	302	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	3	91	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	114	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	90	0.0
Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	3	42	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	110	0.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	35	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	2	123	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	90	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	159	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	79	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	5,337	1,237,489

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 2,378,488. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,237,489) include 52.0% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.