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