Kentucky

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,361,067	354,615	2,110	406,021	35,728	1,882,228
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2,194	888,198	242.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,109	235,801	64.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	600	59,443	16.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	465	81,544	22.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	415	50,386	13.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	331	365,277	99.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	305	76,687	21.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	177	16,390	4.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	146	23,029	6.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	131	20,408	5.6
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	123	13,383	3.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	122	27,489	7.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	72	20,338	5.6
Separate Baptists in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	50	6,828	1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	47	5,227	1.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	38	18,077	4.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	35	10,124	2.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	34	14,291	3.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	33	9,559	2.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	22	5,326	1.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,476	0.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,264	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,860	0.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	3,625	1.0
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,350	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	7	753	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	212	0.1
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	790	0.2
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	365	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	295	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	365	0.1
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	3	126	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	219	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	172	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	436	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	136	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	160	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	72	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	115	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	135	0.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	134	0.0
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	0.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	102	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	6,563	1,963,149

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 3,660,777. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,963,149) include 53.6% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.