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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 % Change
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant +11 +984 83.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +13 +12 0.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant +4 +463 n.a.
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant 0 -28 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -11 +18,271 24.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +34 27.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +90 n.a.
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +437 114.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -9 -674 -6.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 -30 -43.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -36 +56,736 7.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +286 145.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -97 -11,060 -10.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -23 +21,292 37.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant -2 -132 -46.0%
Christian Union Evangelical Protestant -1 +174 9.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -12,493 -66.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -9 +3,555 62.0%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 -59 -18.0%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant +2 +355 119.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +34 +1,120 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +63 +22,709 124.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant -1 -392 -27.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +9 +733 3.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -87 -5,932 -12.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant +14 +1,120 n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +28 n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant -10 -1,434 -52.0%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +123 n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +9 -9,037 -25.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +660 228.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +27 +5,824 3002.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -4 -778 -3.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +9 +3,937 n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -3 -1,181 -67.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +5 +279 110.0%
Fundamental Methodist Conference, Inc. Evangelical Protestant +13 +1,009 n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +3 +4,524 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +22 +19,315 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +34 +23,207 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +13 +451 20.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +394 33.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +14 +41,131 194.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +17 -4,485 -3.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +1 -89 -20.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +185 +19,547 n.a.
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -85 -37.0%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +31 +447 16.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +1 +300 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +4 +361 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +65 +7,328 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -270 -29,996 -32.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +14 +5,144 330.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +320 n.a.
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant +1 +81 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +361 4.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,352 12.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +71 +97,679 14.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +2 +544 29.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -19 -21,999 -30.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -169 -43,852 -16.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +3 -137 -17.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +15 +2,695 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +4 +474 67.0%
  Totals: -16 +222,013 +8.5%

The population of these 115 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 4,916,686; in 2000 it was 5,595,211. The total population changed 9.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (2,618,251) represent 53.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (2,893,159) include 51.7% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 64 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 64 groups had 2,610,381 adherents in 1980 and 2,832,394 adherents in 2000, for a change of 8.5%

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 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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