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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	-24	+40,751	11.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+158	+17,049	1.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+50	+16,118	17.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+22	+9,438	39.1%
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	+26	+5,965	158.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+14	+4,380	32.2%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+3,971	24.1%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+21	+2,114	7.6%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	+2,075	226.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,517	79.2%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+1,166	39.6%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,150	50.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+968	10.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+862	15.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-23	+813	1.2%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+689	412.6%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+19	+622	37.7%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+603	167.5%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+600	93.6%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+408	381.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+347	19.2%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+277	50.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+271	79.2%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+219	25.9%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+181	317.5%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+181	146.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+129	8.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+110	11.3%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+77	187.8%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+51	30.4%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+31	83.8%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+23	8.5%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+18	14.8%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+17	23.3%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	0	+15	125.0%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	0	-19	-61.3%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-61	-45.9%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-70	-19.1%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-100	-23.4%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-12	-126	-2.5%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-173	-0.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+13	-240	-2.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-312	-1.6%
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-349	-9.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	-496	-7.8%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-12	-612	-85.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-898	-8.6%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	-15	-1,519	-12.3%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-13	-2,451	-11.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-3	-3,221	-26.9%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	-3,460	-23.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-13	-7,076	-16.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-69	-18,423	-8.1%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+172	+73,600	+3.6%

The population of these 120 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 3,685,296; in 2000 it was 4,041,769. The total population changed 9.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (2,227,747) represent 60.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (2,159,541) include 53.4% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 53 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 53 groups had 2,054,250 adherents in 1990 and 2,127,850 adherents in 2000, for a change of 3.6%

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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