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Hawaii

Denominational Groups, 2000

98,554 48,484 282 240,813 50,561 772,843
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
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,531 1298.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +2 +6,084 664.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +6,963 391.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +102 319.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +39 +14,622 205.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +10 +1,681 195.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +178 178.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,069 134.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 +956 116.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +867 104.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +2 +29 64.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +34 +7,657 58.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +32 +14,756 53.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +2 +581 50.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +816 44.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +7 +796 41.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,444 30.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 +102 20.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +31 +30,813 15.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 +1,034 14.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +108 12.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +17 +2,069 10.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -2 +1,007 10.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +2 +10 9.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -37 -16.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -576 -24.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +1 -339 -53.0%
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant -3 -279 -62.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant -4 -139 -78.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 -937 -86.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 -199 -90.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -140 -93.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +5 +276 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +39 +15,076 n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +282 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,700 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,975 n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 +60 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +80 n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +3 +328 n.a.
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant +9 +768 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +156 n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,559 n.a.
  Totals: +274 +115,889 +36.3%

The population of these 5 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 964,691; in 2000 it was 1,211,537. The total population changed 9.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (319,695) represent 33.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (438,694) include 36.2% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 43 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 43 groups had 319,445 adherents in 1980 and 435,334 adherents in 2000, for a change of 36.3%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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