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Denominational Groups, 2000

560,678	1,288,959	119,895	7,550,491	1,939,813	7,516,621
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	1,834	6,257,786	356.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,519	508,029	28.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	735	307,481	17.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	768	249,079	14.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	562	216,552	12.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	455	215,026	12.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	122	173,649	9.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	311	173,379	9.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	206	102,099	5.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	260	90,068	5.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	311	85,424	4.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	306	58,267	3.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	173	36,329	2.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	74	25,438	1.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	74	19,458	1.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	83	17,610	1.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	97	15,308	0.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	89	14,801	0.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	81	14,570	0.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	67	14,059	0.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	108	13,773	0.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	65	12,587	0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	34	7,470	0.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	76	7,399	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	113	6,486	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	60	5,348	0.3
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	5	4,218	0.2
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	10	3,879	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	41	3,625	0.2
Bible Church of Christ, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	3,333	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	8	2,843	0.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	34	2,696	0.2
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,406	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,406	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,532	0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,109	0.1
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	8	1,855	0.1
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,881	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	5	1,707	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,630	0.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,207	0.1
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	2	1,052	0.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,073	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	957	0.1
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	813	0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	633	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	528	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	370	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	345	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	4	268	0.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	5	416	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	151	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	260	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	263	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	253	0.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	211	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	3	159	0.0
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	160	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	4	78	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	84	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	8,853	8,694,064

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 17,558,072. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (8,694,064) include 49.5% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.