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
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+1,603	753.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-26	+4,643	435.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+35	+89,325	432.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,075	414.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+24	+5,143	387.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+260	257.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+14	+953	175.0%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+58	+2,859	150.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	+6	+164	122.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+117	104.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+34	+37,807	82.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+10,477	72.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+3,320	67.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+29	+11,921	66.0%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	0	+153	52.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+21	48.0%
Protestant Reformed Churches in America	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,143	46.0%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	+1	+179	43.0%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	+500	42.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+876	41.0%
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+69	33.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+590	24.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+777	23.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+22	23.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+192	22.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+119	22.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+2	+805	21.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+16,361	17.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+4,778	14.0%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+961	14.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+2,501	12.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,195	5.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+78	+1,418	3.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-7	+361	0.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-11	-319	-1.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-79	-23,557	-1.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-14	-1,923	-6.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+27	-14,706	-6.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+8	-1,012	-10.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+5	-4,954	-10.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-26	-18,284	-10.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-18	-12,747	-18.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+4	-448	-20.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-5	-2,516	-20.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-48	-68,301	-24.0%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-156	-25.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-1,930	-25.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+17	-5,479	-28.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-782	-30.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-29	-27,613	-32.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-17	-51,762	-33.0%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-175	-34.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-325	-37.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-10	-41,576	-42.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-14	-17,294	-51.0%
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-34	-58.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-5	-22,640	-61.0%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	0	-1,821	-75.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-22	-79.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+143	+53,934	n.a.
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	+2	+1,325	n.a.
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+832	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+59	+6,469	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+6	+1,869	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	+7	+1,670	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	+1	+450	n.a.
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+372	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+23	+14,958	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+44	+3,952	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+22	+986	n.a.
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+175	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+59	+54,068	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+30,200	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+20	+17,598	n.a.
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+10	n.a.
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+5	+2,492	n.a.
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+521	n.a.
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,124	n.a.
	Totals:	546	75,317	+1.9%

The population of these 83 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 9,262,078; in 2000 it was 9,938,444. The total population changed 6.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (3,936,860) represent 42.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (4,156,909) include 41.8% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 78 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 78 groups had 3,879,057 adherents in 1980 and 3,954,374 adherents in 2000, for a change of 1.9%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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