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	3,527	1,446,228	218.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,983	605,362	91.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	743	205,548	31.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	651	312,693	47.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	417	54,828	8.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	303	39,125	5.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	293	50,460	7.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	252	73,664	11.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	243	53,322	8.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	231	87,815	13.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	230	36,346	5.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	199	33,101	5.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	190	8,373	1.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	179	20,158	3.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	175	149,483	22.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	161	27,158	4.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	157	22,866	3.5
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	151	3,508	0.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	112	33,079	5.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	106	15,723	2.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	99	19,522	3.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	72	11,922	1.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	69	8,902	1.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	61	19,275	2.9
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	57	6,064	0.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	56	3,556	0.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	48	6,347	1.0
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	48	19,864	3.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	44	6,424	1.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	39	9,934	1.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	37	28,870	4.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	37	27,361	4.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	35	3,924	0.6
Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	34	3,961	0.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	34	27,890	4.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	32	4,877	0.7
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	29	4,048	0.6
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	28	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	25	2,118	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	19	3,717	0.6
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	18	3,824	0.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,830	0.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	13	751	0.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	12	7,225	1.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	10	n.a.	n.a.
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	401	0.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	6	236	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	480	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	327	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	520	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	152	0.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	626	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	3	88	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	128	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	45	0.0
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	25	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	0.0
Bible Church of Christ, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	225	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	211	0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	279	0.0
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	133	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.0
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	462,785	69.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	11,331	3,977,923

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 6,628,637. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,977,923) include 60.0% 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.