Mississippi

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,130,113	288,047	1,213	115,760	19,350	1,290,175
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1,915	760,385	301.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,354	250,240	99.3
Catholic Church	Catholic	158	95,096	37.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	190	36,016	14.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	347	34,148	13.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	153	26,328	10.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	82	20,098	8.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	149	17,745	7.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	106	14,160	5.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	155	12,374	4.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	47	12,043	4.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	59	7,308	2.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	29	7,248	2.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	51	6,668	2.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	53	5,683	2.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	50	5,608	2.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	27	4,323	1.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	28	3,917	1.6
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	31	3,262	1.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,544	1.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	12	2,075	0.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	14	1,632	0.7
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	18	1,475	0.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,287	0.5
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	757	0.3
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	6	648	0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	627	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	6	545	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	221	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	156	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	138	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.0
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	40	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	16	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	5,090	1,334,879

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 2,520,638. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,334,879) include 53.0% 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.