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	% Change
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+337	224.7%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+3,474	183.3%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+4,000	130.1%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+32	+5,137	99.2%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+47	90.4%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+11	+163,975	78.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+3	+129	75.9%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+31	+9,269	62.5%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+555	58.2%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-2	+8,089	57.4%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+220	55.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+605	48.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+27	+41,950	43.6%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+14,265	42.9%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+12,496	39.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+26	+11,317	34.7%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+109	34.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+1,556	29.8%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+14	+20,753	28.5%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+560	19.8%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+33	15.9%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+53	15.3%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+67	15.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+25	+5,846	15.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	+9,212	14.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+4,094	14.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+10	+4,649	14.3%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	0	+16	12.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+890	9.9%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+192	+136,964	8.7%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-16	+3,182	8.6%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-45	+40,598	7.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+4,500	4.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+327	2.6%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,183	2.5%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-67	-0.5%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+2	-88	-0.8%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-4	-1.6%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-12	-6.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+2	-197	-7.1%
New Hope Baptist Association	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-223	-7.4%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-27	-582	-8.1%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-182	-11.4%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-5	-56	-14.7%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-160	-20.2%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-478	-22.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-5	-803	-22.5%
Jasper Baptist and Pleasant Valley Baptist Associations	Evangelical Protestant	-8	-2,073	-22.7%
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-61	-40.4%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-39	-44.8%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-71	-56.3%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-232	-59.9%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+322	+505,129	+16.5%

The population of these 159 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 6,478,216; in 2000 it was 8,186,453. The total population changed 26.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (3,730,757) represent 57.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (3,665,550) include 44.8% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 52 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 52 groups had 3,065,093 adherents in 1990 and 3,570,222 adherents in 2000, for a change of 16.5%

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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