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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 |
2,801 |
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 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 9,246 |
2,984,916 |
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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.
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