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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	% Change
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+88	+2,337	2.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+63	+14,990	50.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+62	+1,447	6.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+39	+8,978	62.9%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+33	+1,596	10.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+29	+8,258	14.1%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+22	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+20	+17,354	258.6%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+15	-1,098	-28.5%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	+14	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+2,609	127.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+3,878	19.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+1,363	51.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,559	62.3%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+72	2.3%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,690	88.2%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+420	560.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+509	90.4%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+56	22.0%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+398	328.9%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+3	-299	-14.2%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+644	368.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+22,194	112.6%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+73	84.9%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+175	84.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-2,117	-17.8%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+474	423.2%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	0	-15	-37.5%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	0	+501	19.2%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	+760	n.a.
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	0	-3	-2.3%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	-11,990	-81.8%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-67	-70.5%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+30	21.7%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2,350	33.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-830	-19.5%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-352	-74.3%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+36	7.2%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-54	-26.5%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-32	-16.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	-1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+772	5.7%
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	-1	n.a.	n.a.
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	-1	-1,250	-78.1%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-220	-77.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+2,015	43.9%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-83	-2.9%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-262	-13.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-2	-1,159	-8.5%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-9	-0.3%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-1,017	-26.9%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-4	-11,604	-14.5%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-5	-844	-19.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-6	-9,132	-10.1%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	-6	n.a.	n.a.
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-9	-14,404	-19.6%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-10	-29,893	-12.9%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	-11	-758	-46.6%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-12	+3,660	14.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-14	-18,222	-9.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-20	-5,349	-43.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-30	-37,292	-18.7%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-43	-26,740	-11.6%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-74	-63,224	-13.6%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-90	+270,003	3.7%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-429	-189,370	-10.3%
	Totals:	-319	-56,488	-.5%

The population of these 62 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 17,990,455; in 2000 it was 18,976,457. The total population changed 5.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (11,813,403) represent 65.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (11,459,836) include 60.4% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 61 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 61 groups had 11,118,452 adherents in 1990 and 11,061,964 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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