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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	+5	+166,123	111.1%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+190	+65,830	4.6%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-19	+33,423	5.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+48	+26,209	47.8%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+14,669	52.6%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+3	+11,379	41.6%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+25	+11,140	28.5%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+10,705	148.2%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+17	+9,609	42.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+19	+7,935	24.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+7,857	23.8%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+21	+7,708	64.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+6,877	25.3%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+6,404	8.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+19	+4,247	21.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+3,795	96.7%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+3,593	94.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+2,870	44.7%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,829	20.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+3	+1,464	39.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-5	+1,376	7.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+1,364	6.8%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+20	+1,167	11.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+6	+1,015	1.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+960	184.6%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+940	14.8%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+492	233.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-4	+486	13.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+341	71.0%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	0	+89	287.1%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+35	12.5%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+30	4.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+21	46.7%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	0	+16	6.8%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+5	3.9%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	n.a.
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-25	-1.4%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	-1	-49	-32.2%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-110	-27.4%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-171	-52.3%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-2	-377	-60.2%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-38	-510	-6.1%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+4	-1,558	-9.9%
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	+2	-1,684	-8.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-5	-1,901	-0.9%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-9	-3,234	-6.1%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-3	-3,325	-11.5%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	-27	-3,357	-82.9%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-28	-10,301	-28.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-157	-14,362	-28.5%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+2	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+127	+371,039	+11.7%

The population of these 100 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 6,628,637; in 2000 it was 8,049,313. The total population changed 21.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (3,977,923) represent 60.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (3,651,416) include 45.4% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 50 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 50 groups had 3,181,261 adherents in 1990 and 3,552,300 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.7%

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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