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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -4 -1,006 -8.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 +188 31.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 -4 -44.4%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +18 +16,151 40.5%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +122 1.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +8 +14,631 45.8%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 +16 18.6%
Catholic Church Catholic -38 +150,589 13.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,302 7.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +255 11.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 +633 9.2%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,362 16.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -2 -91 -17.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +6 +784 80.8%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +21 7.2%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant -1 +16 47.1%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -4 -71 -29.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +20 +5,546 38.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant +1 -128 -30.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 -339 -7.1%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -280 -8.6%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 0 -62 -19.5%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -5 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +6 +3,983 303.4%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -5 -1,433 -4.5%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +18 +8,246 40.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -24 +30,076 3.7%
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +63 30.1%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -3 -153 -25.8%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -3 -122 -17.9%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Hutterian Brethren Evangelical Protestant +5 +500 125.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -5 +3,655 39.2%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -595 -6.7%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +608 241.3%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +8,221 24.3%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 -11,701 -5.4%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +1 +231 60.5%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -7 -848 -37.7%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -115 -7.8%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +3 -1,685 -20.4%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 -469 -25.2%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +5 -356 -29.7%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox -2 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant -2 -384 -55.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -11 -10,136 -15.2%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +116 27.8%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 -1,074 -12.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +5,218 178.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +4 +20 0.3%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +13 +240 4.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -713 -12.6%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -12 -11,322 -20.4%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -12 -24,781 -17.4%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +140 9.1%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +4 -5,041 -8.6%
  Totals: -18 +180,024 +6.5%

The population of these 87 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 4,375,099; in 2000 it was 4,919,479. The total population changed 12.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (2,837,418) represent 64.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (3,035,248) include 61.7% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 53 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 53 groups had 2,786,684 adherents in 1990 and 2,966,708 adherents in 2000, for a change of 6.5%

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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