Tennessee

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,102,490	551,186	4,010	183,161	64,772	2,783,664
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	146	0.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	57	21,739	4.7
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,920	0.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	6	5,084	1.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	170	23,870	5.2
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,895	0.4
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,837	0.4
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	148	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	219	0.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	128	114,916	25.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	824	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	375	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	66	18,977	4.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	150	32,150	7.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	68	14,355	3.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	323	36,897	8.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	4	56	0.0
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	43	9,929	2.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	22	1,711	0.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	167	23,951	5.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1,444	226,320	49.3
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	299	38,207	8.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	108	39,278	8.6
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	50	14,767	3.2
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	222	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	9	921	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	11	661	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,044	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	22	1,778	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	12	7,747	1.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	45	11,157	2.4
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	632	0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	36	0.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	356	85,565	18.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	28	5,741	1.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,791	0.6
Separate Baptists in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	225	0.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	106	20,688	4.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2,754	1,203,537	262.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	8	1,695	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	17	2,185	0.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,738	413,149	90.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	304	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	255	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	8,309	2,391,977

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 4,591,120. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,391,977) include 52.1% 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.