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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 -6 -3,923 -25.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant +3 +795 n.a.
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 -3 -38.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +66 +31,660 130.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +26 +5,520 79.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +15 +18,718 67.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +36 54.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -68 +218,879 21.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +31 +10,809 133.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +1 -212 -8.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +7 +921 14.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,037 12.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -1,075 -71.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,147 189.0%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 -35 -10.0%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant +1 +50 n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +4 +174 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +35 +10,696 114.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant +1 -185 -38.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +6 -344 -7.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +15 +1,192 67.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant +1 +256 n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -3 -1,599 -24.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +9 +4,178 374.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -5 -8,065 -21.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant +6 +5,189 30.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +37 +19,399 205.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -37 +65,062 8.0%
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 -131 -32.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 -967 -69.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +6 +149 36.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +4 +4,029 n.a.
Hutterian Brethren Evangelical Protestant +9 +900 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +10 +12,980 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +10 +8,225 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +9 +660 330.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +12 +32,853 359.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +17 -16,453 -8.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +2 +223 57.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant +1 +49 4.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +4 +2,316 54.0%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -494 -26.0%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +8 +40 5.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +1 +175 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +4 +1,662 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +7 +307 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -12 -20,136 -26.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +5 +533 n.a.
Protestant Reformed Churches in America Evangelical Protestant 0 -45 -40.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant +3 +73 1.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +2,177 36.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +8 +500 8.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +27 +3,007 123.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +4 +1,340 37.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -7 -10,612 -19.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -24 -28,411 -19.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +327 409.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +15 +1,682 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +7 -6,094 -10.0%
  Totals: 286 +371,141 +14.1%

The population of these 87 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 4,075,970; in 2000 it was 4,919,479. The total population changed 12.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (2,642,999) represent 64.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (3,035,248) include 61.7% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 59 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 59 groups had 2,628,111 adherents in 1980 and 2,999,252 adherents in 2000, for a change of 14.1%

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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