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Michigan

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,079,117 783,541 46,294 2,019,926 228,031 5,781,535
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 % Change
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +16,064 203.4%
Old Missionary Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant +1 +223 149.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +188 108.7%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +268 105.9%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 0 +645 94.9%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +12 +673 81.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +10 +2,680 70.7%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +6 +5,247 54.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -5 +9,370 45.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 +249 42.7%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant +1 +887 41.9%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +9 +15,543 40.3%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +14,530 36.9%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,740 36.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +23 +6,545 27.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +9 +5,016 25.0%
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +5 25.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +21 +16,206 24.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +219 19.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +2 +253 16.9%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +8 14.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +2,809 13.4%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -7 +1,937 13.4%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant -3 +12,031 11.9%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -3 +851 11.8%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant 0 +11 10.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +2 +401 9.4%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +258 9.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +585 6.4%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -11 +1,489 4.4%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -2 +2,884 2.7%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant -1 +18 1.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -237 -0.6%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant 0 -3 -0.7%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant -1 -4 -1.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +7 -5,910 -2.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -3 -146 -3.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -11 -554 -3.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -6 -6,762 -4.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -9 -4,134 -4.7%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +6 -482 -5.1%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -40 -5.6%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -2,881 -6.1%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -16 -6.5%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 -2,064 -6.7%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +32 -479 -9.1%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +28 -5,949 -9.6%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -17 -7,960 -11.7%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -41 -29,860 -11.8%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -831 -12.4%
Catholic Church Catholic -27 -318,682 -13.6%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -87 -16.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant -1 -475 -16.0%
Evangelical Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -53 -16.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -7 -21,853 -17.3%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -13,245 -18.5%
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%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -28 -16,259 -21.9%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -7 -311 -24.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant -1 -237 -29.7%
Netherlands Reformed Congregations Evangelical Protestant 0 -693 -38.1%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 -133 -43.2%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 0 -7 -53.8%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -28 -3,018 -55.5%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox -1 -1,100 -64.7%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 -3,320 -66.4%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 0 +10 n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -8 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox -2 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox -3 n.a. n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: -34 -332,349 -7.8%

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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