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State Membership Report
Kentucky
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
% Change |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+230 |
+91,796 |
10.0% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
-8 |
+40,744 |
11.0% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-60 |
+25,094 |
31.0% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
+133 |
+20,441 |
n.a. |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+59 |
+17,182 |
105.0% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+14 |
+10,359 |
n.a. |
| Old Missionary Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
+42 |
+9,735 |
n.a. |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+36 |
+9,695 |
48.0% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+30 |
+8,407 |
88.0% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
+4 |
+7,725 |
213.0% |
| American Baptist Association, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+14 |
+5,023 |
372.0% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
+81 |
+4,901 |
n.a. |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+45 |
+4,112 |
n.a. |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+3,450 |
n.a. |
| Enterprise Baptists Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
+36 |
+3,241 |
n.a. |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
+5 |
+2,993 |
n.a. |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+19 |
+1,746 |
n.a. |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+27 |
+1,482 |
188.0% |
| International Pentecostal Church of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
+1,241 |
n.a. |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
+1,173 |
22.0% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+956 |
39.0% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+887 |
70.0% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
+784 |
1089.0% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+751 |
354.0% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+10 |
+673 |
13.0% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+536 |
182.0% |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
+2 |
+522 |
n.a. |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+453 |
283.0% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
+379 |
279.0% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
+2 |
+328 |
44.0% |
| Church of God in Christ, Mennonite |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+238 |
n.a. |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+235 |
336.0% |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+200 |
n.a. |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+118 |
n.a. |
| Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
+3 |
+110 |
82.0% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+90 |
n.a. |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+47 |
27.0% |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+27 |
n.a. |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+25 |
22.0% |
| Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+12 |
n.a. |
| Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-30 |
-29.0% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-38 |
-10.0% |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-58 |
-46.0% |
| Separate Baptists in Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
-61 |
-1.0% |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-71 |
-20.0% |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-139 |
-32.0% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
+5 |
-639 |
-6.0% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
-795 |
-43.0% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+21 |
-841 |
-1.0% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
+4 |
-995 |
-5.0% |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-19 |
-2,524 |
-19.0% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
-10 |
-3,362 |
-15.0% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-2 |
-5,528 |
-39.0% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
-74 |
-9,076 |
-12.0% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
-219 |
-13,446 |
-27.0% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+11 |
-15,982 |
-58.0% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-118 |
-27,081 |
-12.0% |
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Totals:
+399
| +197,245 |
+10.1% |
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The population of these 120 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 3,660,777; in 2000 it was 4,041,769. The total population changed 9.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (1,963,149) represent 53.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (2,159,541) include 53.4% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 57 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 57 groups had 1,944,606 adherents in 1980 and 2,141,851 adherents in 2000, for a change of 10.1%
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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