Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,132,162	1,458,104	48,991	2,231,832	230,480	6,251,571
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	1,057	2,141,777	197.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2,181	656,107	60.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	386,280	35.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	658	320,021	29.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	615	205,721	19.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	483	195,349	18.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	511	188,219	17.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	480	135,830	12.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	337	127,219	11.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	138	124,832	11.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	92	93,332	8.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	419	90,659	8.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	186	83,336	7.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	249	69,349	6.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	194	69,302	6.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	207	66,665	6.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	432	47,949	4.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	208	36,587	3.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	37	35,427	3.3
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	238	35,200	3.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	95	30,979	2.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	220	29,931	2.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	106	25,334	2.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	120	24,508	2.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	27	22,755	2.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	135	22,580	2.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	109	20,765	1.9
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	150	14,222	1.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	121	13,549	1.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	112	13,436	1.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	20	6,858	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	38	6,531	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	63	6,455	0.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	55	6,204	0.6
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	60	6,003	0.6
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	49	4,763	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	24	4,650	0.4
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	23	4,611	0.4
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	35	4,349	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	45	3,921	0.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	17	3,504	0.3
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	38	3,166	0.3
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	35	3,080	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	63	2,844	0.3
Wayne Trail Missionary Baptist Association	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,467	0.2
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	7	2,409	0.2
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	34	2,340	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,180	0.2
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	2,110	0.2
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,043	0.2
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	30	2,003	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,959	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	22	1,782	0.2
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,682	0.2
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,640	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,580	0.2
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,564	0.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	18	1,499	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,490	0.1
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	24	1,451	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,418	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,379	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	1,011	0.1
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	22	998	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	978	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	932	0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	25	929	0.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	764	0.1
Midwest Congregational Christian Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	10	674	0.1
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	11	661	0.1
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	5	546	0.1
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	24	542	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	350	0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	293	0.0
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	2	283	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	235	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	190	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	189	0.0
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	2	168	0.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	3	149	0.0
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	141	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	126	0.0
Hutterian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	63	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	61	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	52	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.0
Old Order River Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	8	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	77	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	27	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	12	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	23	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	9	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	7	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	40	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	11,086	5,437,630

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 10,847,115. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (5,437,630) include 50.1% 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.