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