West Virginia

Denominational Groups, 2000

200,083	325,508	4,461	105,363	14,601	1,158,328
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,584	219,560	112.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	612	155,662	79.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	175	105,346	54.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	230	47,103	24.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	276	30,473	15.6
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	87	29,239	15.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	116	26,452	13.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	84	19,086	9.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	60	16,794	8.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	94	16,635	8.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	184	16,396	8.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	96	16,029	8.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	75	15,474	7.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	91	12,182	6.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	67	8,623	4.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	23	7,386	3.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	18	3,755	1.9
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	43	3,374	1.7
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	19	3,219	1.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	33	3,083	1.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	13	2,391	1.2
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	40	2,346	1.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	8	1,768	0.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,632	0.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,489	0.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	9	747	0.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	645	0.3
Primitive Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	10	542	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	385	0.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	5	350	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	3	350	0.2
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	249	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	221	0.1
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	215	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	195	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	140	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	78	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	n.a.	20	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	7	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	1	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	4,103	769,768

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,949,644. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (769,768) include 39.5% 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.