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	% Change
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+171	+70,887	5.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+10	+45,958	33.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+17,415	35.7%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+12,935	81.3%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+9,341	196.5%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+8,800	27.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+24	+8,440	54.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+7,664	24.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-11	+7,122	33.9%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+5,146	22.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+2,902	20.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+2,461	548.1%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+1,899	142.6%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,759	98.4%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,164	58.1%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-2	+776	4.4%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+649	60.2%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+583	128.4%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+406	1.5%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+373	58.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-2	+154	1.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-5	+101	12.1%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+75	38.9%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	0	+69	106.2%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+67	13.1%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+53	43.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+3	+42	1.7%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+38	2.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+26	3.0%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+13	108.3%
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2	20.0%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	-1	0	n.a.
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-19	-9.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-31	-28.4%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-32	-1.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	-53	-2.3%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-69	-3.7%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-142	-31.8%
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	0	-194	-2.2%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	-194	-21.6%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-14	-531	-6.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-897	-14.5%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,273	-22.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-98	-2,868	-0.7%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-10	-3,075	-23.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-22	-3,329	-4.7%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-6	-3,348	-1.5%
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-3,560	-29.3%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+8	-3,891	-12.6%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	-9	-4,269	-11.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-10	-5,314	-13.2%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-6	-21,624	-30.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+121	+152,607	+5.7%

The population of these 95 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 4,877,185; in 2000 it was 5,689,283. The total population changed 16.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (2,984,916) represent 61.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (2,905,619) include 51.1% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 52 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 52 groups had 2,694,103 adherents in 1990 and 2,846,710 adherents in 2000, for a change of 5.7%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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