Georgia

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,273,901	824,493	7,873	374,185	185,098	4,520,903
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	168	210,210	32.5
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,018	0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	32	6,748	1.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	222	31,973	4.9
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,146	0.3
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	197	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	346	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	639,303	98.7
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	36	5,227	0.8
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,920	0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	126	38,725	6.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	207	0.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	52	2,828	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	466	96,173	14.9
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	318	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	153	7,170	1.1
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	150	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	92	12,675	2.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	402	46,832	7.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	438	0.1
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	2	151	0.0
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	87	0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	400	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	94	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,478	0.2
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,600	0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	150	0.0
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	32	33,265	5.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	50	36,821	5.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,240	0.2
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	126	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	57	5,180	0.8
Jasper Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist Associations	Evangelical Protestant	39	9,151	1.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	32	8,997	1.4
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	8	387	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	118	12,193	1.9
New Hope Baptist Association	Evangelical Protestant	21	2,995	0.5
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	11	791	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	76	14,823	2.3
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	273	13,559	2.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	27	3,074	0.5
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	112	28,162	4.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	3,041	1,582,520	244.3
Truevine Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	3	561	0.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	27	1,895	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	954	0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	16	11,389	1.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	70	14,083	2.2
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	129	0.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	155	62,738	9.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	80	32,447	5.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	11	380	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	192	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	170	0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	305	101,274	15.6
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	249	0.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	23	3,574	0.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,659	530,076	81.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	8	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	500	0.1
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	23	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	95	32,593	5.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	38	72,747	11.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	16	2,770	0.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	8,300	3,730,757

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 6,478,216. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,730,757) include 57.6% 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.