Missouri

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,384,748	518,882	5,797	856,964	126,768	2,702,052
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	578	802,083	156.8
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	126	0.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	6,941	1.4
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	320	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	501	84,193	16.5
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	157	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	494	0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	95	10,919	2.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	300	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	159,266	31.1
Christ Catholic Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	0.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	523	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	27	2,607	0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	323	65,035	12.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	387	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	93	7,887	1.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	60	6,646	1.3
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	6	331	0.1
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	10	257	0.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	3	408	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	44	1,377	0.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	23	1,206	0.2
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	170	26,507	5.2
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	489	46,936	9.2
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,500	0.3
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	92	0.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	32	2,202	0.4
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,498	0.5
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	298	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	188	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,063	0.6
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	13	297	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	17	642	0.1
Fundamental Methodist Conference, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,037	0.2
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	22	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	33	25,940	5.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	42	27,803	5.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,257	0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,546	0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	314	145,741	28.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	18	1,930	0.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	174	19,676	3.9
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	63	0.0
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	30	4,150	0.8
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	66	4,845	1.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	23	3,742	0.7
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	20	663	0.1
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	24	3,147	0.6
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	3	103	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	83	12,705	2.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1,848	789,183	154.2
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	30	3,146	0.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,402	0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,099	0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	21	11,693	2.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	385	101,756	19.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	104	29,066	5.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	82	28,958	5.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	8	517	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	21	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	571	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	314	79,600	15.6
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	150	0.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	181	66,776	13.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,004	255,111	49.9
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	40	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	89	27,877	5.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	35	53,092	10.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	8	2,427	0.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	7,666	2,944,890

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 5,117,073. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,944,890) include 57.6% 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.