Massachusetts

Denominational Groups, 2000

150,505	385,088	78,663	3,092,296	361,304	2,281,241
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	821	3,040,435	530.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	451	149,739	26.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	249	141,060	24.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	256	75,749	13.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	256	75,653	13.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	82	40,275	7.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	70	30,502	5.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	161	29,292	5.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	73	13,938	2.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	29	12,158	2.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	34	11,053	1.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	20	10,684	1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	48	8,356	1.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	38	7,838	1.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	24	7,826	1.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	21	6,618	1.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	32	6,347	1.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	19	5,943	1.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	25	4,408	0.8
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	15	3,574	0.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,865	0.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	33	2,507	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	21	2,153	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,084	0.4
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	1,799	0.3
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	5	1,620	0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	23	1,519	0.3
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,451	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,300	0.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,266	0.2
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,064	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	591	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	577	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	546	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	506	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	475	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	200	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	184	0.0
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	172	0.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	11	124	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	116	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,918	3,704,625

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 5,737,037. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,704,625) include 64.6% 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.