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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
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 194 69,302 6.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 249 69,349 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
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 63 6,455 0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 38 6,531 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
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 23 4,611 0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 24 4,650 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 (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant 13 1,490 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
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant 24 1,451 0.1
Old Regular Baptists Evangelical Protestant 22 998 0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 1,011 0.1
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 14 978 0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 25 929 0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 932 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
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant 2 283 0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 3 293 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
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 7 235 0.0
Hutterian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 100 0.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 3 149 0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 2 61 0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 2 63 0.0
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant 1 141 0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 1 126 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.