Louisiana

Denominational Groups, 2000

962,475	231,710	2,369	1,382,603	47,871	1,841,948
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	627	1,369,154	324.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1,349	757,639	179.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	386,062	91.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	576	172,676	40.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	243	46,765	11.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	100	33,423	7.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	126	27,105	6.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	231	26,252	6.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	64	19,102	4.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	24	15,625	3.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	56	15,182	3.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	8	12,000	2.8
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	41	10,735	2.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	23	10,719	2.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	49	10,516	2.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	51	6,919	1.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	23	6,073	1.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	5,725	1.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	20	5,647	1.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	60	4,716	1.1
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	30	4,125	1.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	60	4,123	1.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	20	4,060	1.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	31	3,513	0.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	6	3,019	0.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,567	0.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,597	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	8	1,201	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	30	995	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	952	0.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	885	0.2
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	20	713	0.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	707	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	694	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	12	462	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	5	459	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	394	0.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	5	391	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	391	0.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	2	384	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	307	0.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	248	0.1
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	247	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	170	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	159	0.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	103	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	98	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	91	0.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	90	0.0
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	81	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	77	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	52	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	16	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	3	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	16	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	4,025	2,975,409

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 4,219,973. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,975,409) include 70.5% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.