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State Membership Report
Tennessee
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
2,754 |
1,203,537 |
262.1 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
1,738 |
413,149 |
90.0 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
1,444 |
226,320 |
49.3 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
128 |
114,916 |
25.0 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
356 |
85,565 |
18.6 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
108 |
39,278 |
8.6 |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
299 |
38,207 |
8.3 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
323 |
36,897 |
8.0 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
150 |
32,150 |
7.0 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
167 |
23,951 |
5.2 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
170 |
23,870 |
5.2 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
57 |
21,739 |
4.7 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
106 |
20,688 |
4.5 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
66 |
18,977 |
4.1 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
50 |
14,767 |
3.2 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
68 |
14,355 |
3.1 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
45 |
11,157 |
2.4 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
43 |
9,929 |
2.2 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
12 |
7,747 |
1.7 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
28 |
5,741 |
1.3 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
6 |
5,084 |
1.1 |
| American Baptist Association, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
16 |
3,920 |
0.9 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
2,791 |
0.6 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
17 |
2,185 |
0.5 |
| Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
13 |
1,895 |
0.4 |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
1,837 |
0.4 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
22 |
1,778 |
0.4 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
22 |
1,711 |
0.4 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
8 |
1,695 |
0.4 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
1,044 |
0.2 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
921 |
0.2 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
824 |
0.2 |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
632 |
0.1 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
11 |
661 |
0.1 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
375 |
0.1 |
| Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
304 |
0.1 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
255 |
0.1 |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
219 |
0.1 |
| Evangelical Methodist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
222 |
0.1 |
| Separate Baptists in Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
225 |
0.1 |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
148 |
0.0 |
| Advent Christian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
146 |
0.0 |
| Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
36 |
0.0 |
| Church of God (Seventh Day) |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
56 |
0.0 |
| Evangelical Covenant Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
35 |
0.0 |
| Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
18 |
0.0 |
| Church of God in Christ, Mennonite |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
20 |
0.0 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 8,309 |
2,391,977 |
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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.
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