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Florida

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,245,241 943,157 42,198 2,596,148 749,461 9,406,173
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
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 35 2,285 0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 32 7,983 0.6
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
American Association of Lutheran Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 142 0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 33 9,449 0.7
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 2 116 0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 0 47 0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 3 201 0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 3 85 0.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America Evangelical Protestant 1 154 0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 1 500 0.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 576 134,297 10.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 13 3,607 0.3
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 20 2,212 0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 11 1,420 0.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 165 0.0
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 544,592 42.1
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 6 457 0.0
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 9 377 0.0
Catholic Church Catholic 479 1,598,457 123.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 119 15,133 1.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 47 4,988 0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 87 23,725 1.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 179 43,070 3.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 16 2,713 0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 94 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 105 12,440 1.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 479 70,108 5.4
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 4 86 0.0
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant 1 235 0.0
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 125 5,276 0.4
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 5 258 0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 160 59,845 4.6
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 16 2,276 0.2
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 2 222 0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession Evangelical Protestant 3 167 0.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 227 39,413 3.1
Church of the United Brethren in Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 371 0.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 514 73,462 5.7
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 2 139 0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 15 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 22 0.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 7 994 0.1
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant 1 49 0.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 334 158,595 12.3
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 3 194 0.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 88 0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 21 3,331 0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 209 92,732 7.2
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 6 858 0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 186 0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 8 2,271 0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 39 2,978 0.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 25 1,460 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 33 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 11 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 38 35,202 2.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 108 84,048 6.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 30 2,240 0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 87 11,815 0.9
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant 1 111 0.0
Jasper Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 58 0.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 183 566,945 43.8
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 303 0.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 152 67,645 5.2
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 31 4,435 0.3
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 10 665 0.1
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province Mainline Protestant 2 857 0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 10 1,746 0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 77 7,527 0.6
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 101 0.0
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 1 150 0.0
Old Regular Baptists Evangelical Protestant 6 244 0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 29 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 19 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 25 1,705 0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 358 165,255 12.8
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 94 35,998 2.8
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 66 1,755 0.1
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 4 120 0.0
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 16 4,350 0.3
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 2 23 0.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 37 4,880 0.4
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 5 278 0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 229 57,336 4.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1,741 1,167,850 90.3
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox 2 1,000 0.1
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 35 5,506 0.4
United Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 18 0.0
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 112 43,854 3.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 849 462,174 35.7
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 41 7,014 0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 36 5,317 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 8,577 5,672,756  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 12,937,926. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (5,672,756) include 43.8% 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.