Oregon

Denominational Groups, 2000

390,973	177,697	5,295	348,239	149,083	2,350,112
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	199	279,650	98.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	228	89,601	31.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	118	48,958	17.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	216	47,035	16.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	177	42,209	14.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	135	38,086	13.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	167	36,650	12.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	123	34,468	12.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	120	31,260	11.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	90	29,763	10.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	99	26,816	9.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	88	26,159	9.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	115	22,877	8.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	20,900	7.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	61	16,912	6.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	19	16,600	5.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	47	13,657	4.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	117	11,549	4.1
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	10	10,691	3.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	38	8,898	3.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	8,894	3.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	34	7,272	2.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	46	5,148	1.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	35	4,858	1.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	41	4,396	1.6
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	34	3,494	1.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	16	3,252	1.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	38	2,656	0.9
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,018	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	23	1,925	0.7
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,860	0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,795	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	19	1,619	0.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,474	0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,247	0.4
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,056	0.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,030	0.4
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	833	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	16	544	0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	518	0.2
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	514	0.2
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	4	522	0.2
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	5	470	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	6	424	0.2
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	400	0.1
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	382	0.1
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	373	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	342	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	300	0.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	2	326	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	266	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	270	0.1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	243	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	212	0.1
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	197	0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	201	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	166	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	130	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	148	0.1
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	106	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	101	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	107	0.0
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	125	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	83	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	70	0.0
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	0.0
Berean Fundamental Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	29	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	3	11	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	47	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	27	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	12	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	178	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,908	915,285

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,842,321. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (915,285) include 32.2% 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.