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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2,801	1,343,312	275.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,675	396,862	81.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1,472	219,996	45.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	346	48,721	10.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	327	71,129	14.6
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	289	38,684	7.9
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	219	30,826	6.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	182	31,630	6.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	165	23,392	4.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	161	31,979	6.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	146	8,756	1.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	142	137,203	28.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	122	40,351	8.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	121	27,119	5.6
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	93	6,240	1.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	73	6,188	1.3
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	71	8,711	1.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	67	20,986	4.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	64	22,348	4.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	57	15,911	3.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	53	15,635	3.2
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	51	12,139	2.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	51	16,085	3.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	51	13,981	2.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	43	71,627	14.7
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	42	7,413	1.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	25	2,002	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	21	17,474	3.6
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	21	881	0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	21	12,925	2.7
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,418	0.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	18	1,078	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	17	832	0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	17	n.a.	n.a.
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	17	2,260	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,787	0.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,866	0.4
Central Baptist Association Ministries	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,268	0.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,890	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	11	512	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,332	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	10	2,527	0.5
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	9	639	0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	9	5,751	1.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	860	0.2
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	8	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	4,754	1.0
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	900	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	6	598	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	6	108	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	447	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	449	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	211	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	454	0.1
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	3	0	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	282	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	193	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	92	0.0
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	2	65	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	49	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	109	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	21	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	250,490	51.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	9,246	2,984,916

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 4,877,185. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,984,916) include 61.2% 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.