Nebraska

Denominational Groups, 2000

250,329	348,456	8,549	372,791	26,735	704,403
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	381	335,372	212.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	428	145,248	92.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	275	128,667	81.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	271	114,944	72.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	153	48,591	30.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	116	28,342	18.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	18,770	11.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	91	17,579	11.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	62	15,513	9.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	54	14,605	9.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	87	14,488	9.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	68	12,575	8.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	35	12,175	7.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	34	10,556	6.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	56	8,424	5.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	55	8,383	5.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	8	8,042	5.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	6,732	4.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	38	6,457	4.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	18	5,916	3.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	38	4,815	3.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	4,650	3.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	50	4,475	2.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	17	3,826	2.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	33	3,702	2.4
Berean Fundamental Church	Evangelical Protestant	30	3,567	2.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	2,088	1.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	29	1,790	1.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,708	1.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,665	1.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,420	0.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	22	1,117	0.7
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,028	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	1,019	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	9	912	0.6
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	4	720	0.5
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	4	651	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	8	574	0.4
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	572	0.4
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	514	0.3
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	5	483	0.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	461	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	427	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	360	0.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	349	0.2
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	330	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	7	302	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	283	0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	268	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	236	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	6	179	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	170	0.1
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	141	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	128	0.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	117	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	73	0.1
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	18	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	14	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	12	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,629	1,006,572

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,578,385. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,006,572) include 63.8% 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.