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	1,458	182,731	101.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	533	132,325	73.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	177	108,529	60.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	135	43,161	24.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	212	37,586	21.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	124	25,811	14.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	290	25,134	14.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	196	19,814	11.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	17,586	9.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	58	14,845	8.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	179	14,616	8.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	105	14,202	7.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	82	13,926	7.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	93	13,822	7.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	66	13,351	7.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	88	9,383	5.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	31	8,095	4.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	91	7,035	3.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	9	4,200	2.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	41	3,418	1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	38	3,396	1.9
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	19	3,048	1.7
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	34	2,219	1.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	17	2,181	1.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	34	2,175	1.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	18	1,536	0.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,489	0.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	7	1,440	0.8
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	36	1,361	0.8
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	24	1,332	0.7
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	35	1,255	0.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,075	0.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,022	0.6
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	21	1,019	0.6
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	12	911	0.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	900	0.5
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	655	0.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	628	0.4
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	13	601	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	6	510	0.3
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	21	487	0.3
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	452	0.3
Primitive Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	427	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	3	411	0.2
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	274	0.2
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	266	0.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	6	258	0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	251	0.1
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	15	233	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	151	0.1
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	3	128	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	64	0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	55	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	43	0.0
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	2	41	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	36	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	8	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	9	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	6	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	4,443	741,998

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,793,477. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (741,998) include 41.4% 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.