Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,211,065	924,802	11,208	606,059	190,417	4,134,964
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	1,515	742,860	120.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,626	490,789	79.3
Catholic Church	Catholic	228	384,285	62.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	373,756	60.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	512	138,554	22.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	360	129,070	20.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	45	66,564	10.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	193	64,337	10.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	88	51,181	8.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	51	50,030	8.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	120	42,073	6.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	224	42,038	6.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	210	39,949	6.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	178	38,044	6.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	181	32,228	5.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	80	32,114	5.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	112	25,269	4.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	177	24,614	4.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	17	19,725	3.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	171	19,041	3.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	45	17,413	2.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	153	15,304	2.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	91	14,828	2.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	69	12,548	2.0
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	66	12,476	2.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	75	12,240	2.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	98	12,086	2.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	79	9,176	1.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	126	6,373	1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	22	6,119	1.0
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	146	5,582	0.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	26	4,175	0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	56	4,000	0.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	25	3,358	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	39	3,116	0.5
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	46	2,378	0.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,063	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	21	1,849	0.3
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,698	0.3
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	5	1,509	0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,434	0.2
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,030	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	7	925	0.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	7	772	0.1
Central Baptist Association Ministries	Evangelical Protestant	14	749	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	11	695	0.1
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	676	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	671	0.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	629	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	503	0.1
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	473	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Southern Province	Mainline Protestant	4	356	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	349	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	6	337	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	329	0.1
Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	324	0.1
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	195	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	188	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	176	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	129	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	89	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	80	0.0
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	4	33	0.0
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	28	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	7	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	12	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	7,490	2,966,083

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 6,187,358. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,966,083) include 47.9% 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.