Montana

Denominational Groups, 2000

100,992	97,422	727	169,250	35,101	498,703
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	233	125,799	157.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	147	49,106	61.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	106	28,620	35.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	95	19,461	24.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	77	16,235	20.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	64	16,172	20.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	77	11,776	14.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	54	11,455	14.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	38	7,915	9.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	47	6,644	8.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	41	4,358	5.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	26	4,294	5.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	22	4,254	5.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	41	4,140	5.2
Hutterian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	40	3,307	4.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	18	3,222	4.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	22	2,942	3.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	52	2,909	3.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	23	2,812	3.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,125	2.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,893	2.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,127	1.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,099	1.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,067	1.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	980	1.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	735	0.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	11	601	0.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	13	599	0.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	11	587	0.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	551	0.7
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	456	0.6
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	436	0.6
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	438	0.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	430	0.5
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	353	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	310	0.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	6	290	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	218	0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	205	0.3
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	2	198	0.3
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	179	0.2
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	6	136	0.2
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	120	0.2
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	115	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	7	77	0.1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	75	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	54	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	55	0.1
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	2	58	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	0.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	8	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	12	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,415	341,247

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 799,065. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (341,247) include 42.7% 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.