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State Membership Report
Michigan
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 |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+32 |
-479 |
-9.1% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+28 |
-5,949 |
-9.6% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+23 |
+6,545 |
27.9% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+21 |
+16,206 |
24.0% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+12 |
+673 |
81.6% |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
+11 |
-3,352 |
-19.1% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
+11 |
-1,055 |
-21.1% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+10 |
+2,680 |
70.7% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+9 |
+5,016 |
25.0% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+9 |
+15,543 |
40.3% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
-5,910 |
-2.4% |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
-482 |
-5.1% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+5,247 |
54.0% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+1,740 |
36.8% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
+2 |
+253 |
16.9% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+188 |
108.7% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+16,064 |
203.4% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
+2 |
+401 |
9.4% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
-2,881 |
-6.1% |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+887 |
41.9% |
| Evangelical Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-53 |
-16.0% |
| Old Missionary Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+223 |
149.7% |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+14,530 |
36.9% |
| Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+10 |
n.a. |
| Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses |
Orthodox |
0 |
+645 |
94.9% |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+249 |
42.7% |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+11 |
10.5% |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
0 |
-3,320 |
-66.4% |
| Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-40 |
-5.6% |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+8 |
14.0% |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-7 |
-53.8% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+585 |
6.4% |
| Church of God General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-87 |
-16.0% |
| Church of God in Christ, Mennonite |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-3 |
-0.7% |
| Churches of God, General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+268 |
105.9% |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+258 |
9.3% |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-16 |
-6.5% |
| Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+5 |
25.0% |
| Netherlands Reformed Congregations |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-693 |
-38.1% |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-831 |
-12.4% |
| Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+219 |
19.6% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-237 |
-0.6% |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-4 |
-1.2% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+2,809 |
13.4% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+18 |
1.0% |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-475 |
-16.0% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-13,245 |
-18.5% |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-237 |
-29.7% |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
-1 |
-1,100 |
-64.7% |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
-2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
-2 |
+2,884 |
2.7% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
-146 |
-3.4% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
+12,031 |
11.9% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
-2,064 |
-6.7% |
| International Pentecostal Church of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
-133 |
-43.2% |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
+851 |
11.8% |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
-3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
+9,370 |
45.0% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-6 |
-6,762 |
-4.0% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
-7 |
-311 |
-24.0% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-7 |
+1,937 |
13.4% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
-7 |
-21,853 |
-17.3% |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-8 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-9 |
-4,134 |
-4.7% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-11 |
-554 |
-3.7% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
-11 |
+1,489 |
4.4% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
-17 |
-7,960 |
-11.7% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
-27 |
-318,682 |
-13.6% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-28 |
-3,018 |
-55.5% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-28 |
-16,259 |
-21.9% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-41 |
-29,860 |
-11.8% |
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Totals:
-34
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-7.8% |
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The population of these 83 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 9,295,297; in 2000 it was 9,938,444. The total population changed 6.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (4,686,550) represent 50.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (4,156,909) include 41.8% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 68 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 68 groups had 4,246,173 adherents in 1990 and 3,913,824 adherents in 2000, for a change of -7.8%
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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