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^†
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1,207	823,372	188.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	768	1,110,071	253.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	452	215,564	49.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	426	142,771	32.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	201	66,715	15.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	194	39,877	9.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	158	55,497	12.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	149	58,908	13.5
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	142	31,946	7.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	126	31,980	7.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	118	20,627	4.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	85	17,644	4.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	85	12,420	2.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	65	6,874	1.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	52	6,890	1.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	48	14,576	3.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	43	n.a.	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	43	3,255	0.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	42	4,781	1.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	39	12,649	2.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	32	5,218	1.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	30	8,313	1.9
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	29	6,158	1.4
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	27	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	26	33,779	7.7
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	26	8,910	2.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	25	4,380	1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	24	5,669	1.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	23	2,250	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	21	2,923	0.7
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,451	0.6
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,755	0.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	15	9,325	2.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,542	0.4
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,603	0.6
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	13	680	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	13	593	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	11	935	0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	2,282	0.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	8,820	2.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,862	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	10	970	0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	10	252	0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,313	0.3
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	9	691	0.2
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,200	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	8	245	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	525	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	7	1,465	0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	6	8,260	1.9
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	6	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	6	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	291	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	417	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Hutterian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	400	0.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	607	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	427	0.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	3	382	0.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	2	34	0.0
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	209	0.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	86	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	949	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	96	0.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	318	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	123	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	9	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	130	0.0
Berean Fundamental Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	151	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	29,943	6.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	4,981	2,837,418

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 4,375,099. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,837,418) include 64.9% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.