Colorado

Denominational Groups, 2000

457,658	295,740	6,196	752,505	185,160	2,604,002
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	2	336	0.1
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	242	0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	84	28,333	8.6
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	99	0.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	165	34,138	10.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	24	6,123	1.9
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	96	0.0
Berean Fundamental Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	233	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	34,887	10.6
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	253	0.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	286	482,892	146.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	21	2,037	0.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	20	2,463	0.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	41	14,911	4.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	77	18,265	5.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	18	4,516	1.4
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	37	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	29	2,141	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,044	0.9
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	228	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	19	529	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	193	70,313	21.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,121	0.3
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	331	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	2	167	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	88	17,455	5.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	150	17,312	5.3
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	1,061	0.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	48	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,128	0.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	104	36,119	11.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	43	7,732	2.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	119	61,668	18.7
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	8,835	2.7
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,288	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	27	1,862	0.6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	7	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	19	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	23	26,450	8.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	33	18,055	5.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	47	8,172	2.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,152	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	26	48,550	14.7
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	188	0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	114	47,262	14.4
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	3	316	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	24	2,142	0.7
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	329	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	6	244	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	408	0.1
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	16	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	6	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	759	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	129	50,831	15.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,228	0.7
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	3,099	0.9
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	4	119	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	628	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	430	0.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	75	16,892	5.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	192	81,627	24.8
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	12	2,921	0.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	73	22,622	6.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	222	91,310	27.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,080	0.6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,260	1.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,813	1,294,376

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 3,294,394. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,294,376) include 39.3% 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.