Minnesota

Denominational Groups, 2000

549,482	1,134,176	9,837	1,260,660	81,093	1,884,231
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	798	1,041,781	255.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1,220	788,386	193.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	436	220,316	54.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	438	146,401	35.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	202	76,715	18.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	146	59,961	14.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	153	54,787	13.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	126	38,612	9.5
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	135	27,859	6.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	146	24,368	6.0
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	95	17,326	4.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	41	15,566	3.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	99	9,474	2.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	33	9,426	2.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	13	9,147	2.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	29	8,638	2.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	57	8,137	2.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	21	7,763	1.9
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	58	7,022	1.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	41	6,689	1.6
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	31	6,703	1.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	49	6,602	1.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	61	6,394	1.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	21	5,964	1.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	37	4,786	1.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	5	4,259	1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	19	3,616	0.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	10	2,749	0.7
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	23	2,435	0.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,451	0.6
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,305	0.6
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,957	0.5
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,887	0.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	27	1,783	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,509	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,407	0.4
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	6	1,301	0.3
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,118	0.3
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	804	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	9	607	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	8	630	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	484	0.1
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	403	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	409	0.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	2	390	0.1
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	347	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	300	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	200	0.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	168	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	137	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	0.0
Protestant Reformed Churches in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	113	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	0.0
Berean Fundamental Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	82	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	80	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	8	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	4,705	2,642,999

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 4,075,970. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,642,999) include 64.8% 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.