Oklahoma

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,432,064	453,030	2,982	168,625	39,775	1,354,178
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	1,490	964,615	306.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	681	326,294	103.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	201	143,640	45.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	490	88,780	28.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	610	85,193	27.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	83,619	26.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	209	58,901	18.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	200	43,521	13.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	162	41,615	13.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	229	35,225	11.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	241	25,376	8.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	80	24,303	7.7
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	13	22,412	7.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	65	19,107	6.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	79	18,908	6.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	142	16,754	5.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	20	12,130	3.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	41	11,186	3.6
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	52	9,850	3.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	83	8,698	2.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	74	6,671	2.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	88	6,268	2.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	61	5,597	1.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	4,980	1.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,634	1.2
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,603	1.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	8	2,795	0.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	15	2,448	0.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	13	2,416	0.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,263	0.7
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	53	2,192	0.7
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,970	0.6
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,821	0.6
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	22	1,776	0.6
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	1,445	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	18	1,393	0.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,044	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,021	0.3
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	16	821	0.3
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	10	679	0.2
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	4	640	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	630	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	15	630	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	626	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	6	537	0.2
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	10	500	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	455	0.1
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	450	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	436	0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	401	0.1
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	400	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	395	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	240	0.1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	180	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	150	0.1
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	149	0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	137	0.0
Hutterian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	5	80	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	31	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	11	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	5,707	2,102,290

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 3,145,585. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,102,290) include 66.8% 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.