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Connecticut

Denominational Groups, 2000

81,958 342,928 21,115 1,372,562 152,539 1,434,463
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
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +15 +3,260 91.3%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +10 +1,518 18.8%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +8 +572 4.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +8 +1,097 22.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +7 +410 30.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,429 166.3%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +4 -121 -2.7%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +4 -3,244 -36.3%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox +4 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +3 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +3 +268 141.1%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +2 +419 149.6%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +313 119.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 -489 -19.9%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +309 155.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 -1,889 -12.4%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +255 154.5%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 0 +580 43.5%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 0 +28 5.7%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 -20 -3.4%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant 0 +13 59.1%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 -1,180 -73.8%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,259 52.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -130 -41.9%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -5,254 -6.7%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +834 33.1%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -233 -29.5%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +187 123.0%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 +36 18.5%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -25 -67.6%
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -5 -5.9%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -1,239 -12.2%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +38 15.6%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -88 -12.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -102 -19.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -145 -3.5%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -5,189 -9.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 -3,577 -10.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox -2 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -2 +200 5.6%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -3 +336 98.2%
Catholic Church Catholic -5 -2,185 -0.2%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -6 -28 -1.1%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant -6 -2,633 -62.1%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -7 -10,461 -7.7%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -11 -2,983 -6.2%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -15 -8,015 -81.7%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -19 -7,180 -6.2%
  Totals: -4 -42,054 -2.1%

The population of these 8 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 3,287,116; in 2000 it was 3,405,565. The total population changed 3.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (2,047,646) represent 62.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,971,102) include 57.9% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 45 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 45 groups had 1,956,625 adherents in 1990 and 1,914,571 adherents in 2000, for a change of -2.1%

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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