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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	1,874	7,280,488	404.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,478	466,586	25.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1,424	1,843,240	102.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	747	199,519	11.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	703	231,690	12.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	584	230,037	12.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	441	187,551	10.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	418	95,872	5.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	300	73,353	4.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	253	79,865	4.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	220	58,740	3.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	201	90,837	5.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	157	22,917	1.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	150	20,264	1.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	125	15,837	0.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	123	174,011	9.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	123	14,270	0.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	121	19,704	1.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	108	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	97	29,997	1.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	95	11,866	0.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	87	n.a.	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	82	7,132	0.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	77	6,711	0.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	66	4,592	0.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	65	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	65	12,389	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	64	13,648	0.8
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	62	4,346	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	54	5,784	0.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	42	3,785	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	37	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	37	2,503	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	37	2,855	0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	32	25,590	1.4
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	26	3,850	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	23	2,671	0.2
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	20	3,143	0.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	20	13,478	0.8
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	18	1,625	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,779	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,042	0.1
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	12	n.a.	n.a.
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,880	0.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	11	882	0.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,917	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	11	563	0.0
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	11	4,265	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	10	2,102	0.1
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	8	2,611	0.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	8	n.a.	n.a.
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,323	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	498	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	2,581	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	5	14,650	0.8
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	5	264	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	5	1,326	0.1
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	5	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Bible Church of Christ, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	4	7,573	0.4
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	283	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	200	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	129	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Hutterian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	675	0.0
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	3	1,600	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	3	204	0.0
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	71	0.0
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	138	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	120	0.0
Byelorussion Council Of Orthodox Churches In North America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	86	0.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	175	0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	2	40	0.0
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	97	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	121	0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	474	0.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	255	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	0	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	95	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	128	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	3	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	208	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	500,028	27.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	10,878	11,813,403

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 17,990,455. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (11,813,403) include 65.7% 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.