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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
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+466	1607.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+21	+4,235	1018.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+684	+1,480,491	854.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+136	591.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+804	300.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+49	+16,762	258.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+271	242.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+2,400	199.0%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	+11	+3,029	163.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+30	+3,911	145.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+86	+25,529	131.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+281	111.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+84	100.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+76	+30,669	84.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+53	+10,369	75.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+200	+39,942	68.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+14	+1,628	68.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+376	59.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+122	+9,056	59.0%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	+953	56.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,304	54.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+15	+1,106	52.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+100	47.0%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+29	+871	46.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	+168	45.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+20	+2,350	32.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-50	+1,292,705	21.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+69	+2,632	18.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+238	9.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-3	-98	-1.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-1.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+28	-599	-4.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+23	-1,373	-5.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-9	-6.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-21	-13,255	-6.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	+1	-444	-11.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-11	-20,394	-20.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-115	-104,667	-21.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-28	-45,697	-21.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-11	-21,807	-24.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-20	-26,475	-31.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-42	-105,684	-34.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-1,846	-34.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-51	-86,852	-35.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+5	-1,040	-37.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-62	-39.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-8,128	-46.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-22	-7,019	-50.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-4,698	-63.0%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	0	-702	-67.0%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-200	-76.0%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-691	-85.0%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+760	n.a.
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	+8	+3,112	n.a.
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+125	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+124	+41,898	n.a.
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+28	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+819	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+586	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	+4	+1,080	n.a.
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+25	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	+2	+600	n.a.
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+519	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+44	+4,062	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+19	+14,250	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+20	+29,250	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+64	+61,407	n.a.
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+7	+867	n.a.
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+168	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+31	+5,471	n.a.
	Totals:	1,546	2,646,141	+31.1%

The population of these 62 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 17,558,072; in 2000 it was 18,976,457. The total population changed 5.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (8,694,064) represent 49.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (11,459,836) include 60.4% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 70 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 70 groups had 8,505,823 adherents in 1980 and 11,151,964 adherents in 2000, for a change of 31.1%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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