South Carolina

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,179,544	531,743	4,342	136,719	56,290	2,103,374
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	1,674	802,152	257.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,089	294,818	94.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	351	93,329	29.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	112	59,027	18.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	155	57,322	18.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	132	55,344	17.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	134	50,404	16.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	269	33,634	10.8
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	243	22,785	7.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	79	12,482	4.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	40	11,788	3.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	61	11,427	3.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	55	11,035	3.5
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	51	9,758	3.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	45	8,706	2.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	95	8,680	2.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	49	6,473	2.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	15	6,031	1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	40	4,713	1.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	25	3,017	1.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	29	2,887	0.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	12	2,716	0.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,146	0.7
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,096	0.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	18	995	0.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	623	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	7	521	0.2
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	428	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	344	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	5	331	0.1
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	310	0.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	282	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	206	0.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	163	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	117	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	109	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	70	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	19	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	1	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	4,832	1,576,289

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 3,121,820. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,576,289) include 50.5% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.