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Denominational Groups, 2000

582,697	387,568	7,754	716,133	248,698	3,951,271
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	299	380,023	92.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	267	130,918	31.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	238	105,073	25.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	253	98,114	23.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	205	71,334	17.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	256	59,591	14.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	125	51,337	12.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	147	45,306	11.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	107	44,126	10.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	129	37,446	9.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	138	31,086	7.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	125	25,062	6.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	79	20,905	5.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	94	20,123	4.9
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	54	15,354	3.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	47	14,352	3.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	107	13,314	3.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	65	13,144	3.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	59	11,470	2.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	39	9,214	2.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	31	8,711	2.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	46	6,650	1.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	5,829	1.4
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	31	5,356	1.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	20	5,205	1.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	19	4,040	1.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	3,320	0.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	29	3,284	0.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	23	3,214	0.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	23	2,690	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	36	2,326	0.6
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	18	2,291	0.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,197	0.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	28	2,155	0.5
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,087	0.5
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,074	0.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,715	0.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,543	0.4
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,211	0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	5	1,218	0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,064	0.3
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	825	0.2
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	823	0.2
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	661	0.2
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	3	600	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	588	0.1
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	521	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	415	0.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	4	396	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	370	0.1
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	351	0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	334	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	329	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	250	0.1
Protestant Reformed Churches in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	190	0.1
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	161	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	3	100	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	83	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.0
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	11	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	3,305	1,272,579

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 4,132,156. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,272,579) include 30.8% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.