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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 |
% Change |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+218 |
+210,662 |
18.0% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
+24 |
+68,245 |
59.0% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+37 |
+50,003 |
n.a. |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+39 |
+29,239 |
79.0% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
+227 |
+26,935 |
n.a. |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+36 |
+23,105 |
402.0% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+21 |
+16,560 |
69.0% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+34 |
+14,146 |
142.0% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+13 |
+14,095 |
n.a. |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
+7 |
+10,503 |
136.0% |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+11 |
+9,850 |
n.a. |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
-10 |
+9,131 |
48.0% |
| Old Missionary Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
+53 |
+8,579 |
n.a. |
| Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations |
Evangelical Protestant |
+71 |
+8,517 |
n.a. |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
+132 |
+8,225 |
n.a. |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+22 |
+7,493 |
23.0% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+19 |
+6,837 |
33.0% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+12 |
+5,726 |
51.0% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+4,587 |
19.0% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+10 |
+2,910 |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
+5 |
+2,658 |
n.a. |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+12 |
+2,187 |
210.0% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+21 |
+1,727 |
n.a. |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
+1,472 |
10.0% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
+1,388 |
78.0% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+13 |
+1,012 |
n.a. |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
+5 |
+874 |
52.0% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+782 |
307.0% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+755 |
27.0% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
+1 |
+272 |
41.0% |
| Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+184 |
511.0% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+176 |
n.a. |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+157 |
106.0% |
| Church of God in Christ, Mennonite |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+114 |
570.0% |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
+1 |
+106 |
n.a. |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
+1 |
+78 |
n.a. |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
+74 |
12.0% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+62 |
8.0% |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+49 |
22.0% |
| Church of God General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+25 |
n.a. |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-2 |
+22 |
1.0% |
| Evangelical Covenant Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+14 |
40.0% |
| Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+12 |
n.a. |
| Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
0 |
n.a. |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-16 |
-1.0% |
| Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
+2 |
-41 |
-14.0% |
| Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
-61 |
-3.0% |
| Separate Baptists in Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-188 |
-84.0% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-255 |
-15.0% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
-342 |
-37.0% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
+3 |
-606 |
-12.0% |
| American Baptist Association, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
-934 |
-24.0% |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-19 |
-3,792 |
-10.0% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
+4 |
-4,241 |
-11.0% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
-9,064 |
-63.0% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+22 |
-9,672 |
-4.0% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
-51 |
-17,765 |
-21.0% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-161 |
-19,155 |
-5.0% |
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Totals:
+879
| +483,416 |
+20.4% |
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The population of these 95 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 4,591,120; in 2000 it was 5,689,283. The total population changed 16.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (2,391,977) represent 52.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (2,905,619) include 51.1% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 58 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 58 groups had 2,369,421 adherents in 1980 and 2,852,837 adherents in 2000, for a change of 20.4%
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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.
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