North Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,058,919	1,170,670	9,260	315,606	96,961	4,397,897
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	3,460	1,341,047	228.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2,016	592,967	100.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	591	304,471	51.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	770	205,608	35.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	154	94,743	16.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	223	87,790	14.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	256	73,232	12.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	317	56,973	9.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	248	54,210	9.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	412	38,211	6.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	279	30,376	5.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	150	26,269	4.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	76	21,058	3.6
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	45	20,020	3.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	150	19,917	3.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	53	17,418	3.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	91	17,099	2.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	83	14,737	2.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	159	14,198	2.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	19	13,319	2.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	36	12,312	2.1
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	37	10,063	1.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	57	9,147	1.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	46	8,928	1.5
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	57	8,725	1.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	43	5,702	1.0
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	38	5,030	0.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	29	4,668	0.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	25	4,658	0.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	30	4,530	0.8
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	27	2,326	0.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,980	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	13	1,800	0.3
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	7	287	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	260	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	246	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	4	218	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	211	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	173	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	55	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.0
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.0
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	10,031	3,125,225

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 5,881,766. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,125,225) include 53.1% 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.