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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 % Change
Catholic Church Catholic -13 +37,419 11.2%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +5,239 306.7%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +14 +4,934 40.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +23 +4,447 42.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +8 +4,174 70.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +11 +3,846 45.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 +2,475 2.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -5 +1,533 10.6%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,379 7.8%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +2 +698 49.2%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +3 +431 100.9%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +368 5.5%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +337 102.1%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +2 +174 102.4%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant +1 +142 121.4%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +1 +138 28.6%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +98 5.9%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 0 +37 67.3%
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant -1 +16 2.5%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 +13 4.3%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant -2 -6 -3.4%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -16 -3.5%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -16 -2.8%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -30 -21.3%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -66 -1.5%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant -11 -68 -3.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -9 -97 -0.1%
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 -101 -9.8%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -101 -4.8%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant -2 -105 -37.1%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -114 -22.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 -146 -16.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -162 -15.9%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -174 -24.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -4 -299 -26.8%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant -3 -628 -9.7%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -5 -651 -17.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -7 -833 -9.9%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -845 -22.8%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 -921 -19.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -3 -1,470 -10.1%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 -1,570 -12.5%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -2,879 -18.6%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -4 -4,133 -88.9%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -13 -5,108 -18.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -4 -5,282 -65.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -7 -9,171 -18.9%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -13 -27,971 -19.3%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: -36 +4,935 +.5%

The population of these 93 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,578,385; in 2000 it was 1,711,263. The total population changed 8.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (1,006,572) represent 63.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,006,860) include 58.8% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 48 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 48 groups had 982,231 adherents in 1990 and 987,166 adherents in 2000, for a change of .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 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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