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