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State Membership Report
Florida
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
% Change |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+721 |
713.9% |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+17 |
+2,081 |
552.0% |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
+1 |
+505 |
435.3% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+74 |
+16,092 |
136.2% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+12 |
+6,368 |
130.5% |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+124 |
103.3% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+19 |
+2,062 |
92.1% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
+48 |
+997,691 |
62.4% |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
+1 |
+999 |
57.2% |
| Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
+1,852 |
51.3% |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+1,090 |
49.3% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+9 |
+1,616 |
48.5% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+88 |
+31,080 |
44.3% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+69 |
+55,090 |
41.0% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+13 |
+15,620 |
36.3% |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+29 |
34.1% |
| Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+32 |
28.8% |
| Moravian Church in America--Southern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
+3 |
+239 |
27.9% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+63 |
+15,283 |
26.7% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+41 |
+15,775 |
26.4% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+710 |
23.8% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
+1,196 |
22.7% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+41 |
+7,747 |
21.5% |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+31 |
18.8% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+9 |
+1,667 |
13.4% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+25 |
+1,856 |
12.3% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
+17 |
+4,795 |
12.2% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
+80 |
+61,540 |
10.9% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+313 |
+124,247 |
10.6% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
+8 |
+454 |
8.2% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+219 |
8.1% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+15 |
+4,325 |
6.4% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+282 |
5.3% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+160 |
2.3% |
| Church of God in Christ, Mennonite |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+2 |
0.9% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-5 |
-3,551 |
-0.8% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
-65 |
-0.9% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
-922 |
-1.3% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-42 |
-1.8% |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
+1 |
-10 |
-2.0% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
+6 |
-2,138 |
-2.3% |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+8 |
-877 |
-2.5% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
+5 |
-6,069 |
-3.8% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
+4 |
-7,504 |
-4.5% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
-6 |
-1,180 |
-5.0% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-128 |
-5.6% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-9 |
-4,528 |
-10.3% |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-23 |
-11.4% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-252 |
-14.8% |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-219 |
-15.4% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-322 |
-22.1% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
-1,041 |
-23.5% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-48 |
-26,805 |
-31.9% |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-1,539 |
-35.4% |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
-188 |
-41.1% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
-7 |
-4,541 |
-48.1% |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-491 |
-49.4% |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
0 |
-500 |
-50.0% |
| Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-25 |
-51.0% |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-7 |
-350 |
-52.6% |
| Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
+3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
-2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
+2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals:
+917
| +1,310,270 |
+25.7% |
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The population of these 67 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 12,937,926; in 2000 it was 15,982,378. The total population changed 23.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (5,672,756) represent 43.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (6,576,205) include 41.1% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 61 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 61 groups had 5,107,145 adherents in 1990 and 6,417,415 adherents in 2000, for a change of 25.7%
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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