Wisconsin

Denominational Groups, 2000

682,968	787,993	14,965	1,695,660	60,073	2,122,016
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	984	1,544,817	328.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	729	469,322	99.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	414	254,683	54.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	404	222,420	47.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	526	164,199	34.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	263	96,851	20.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	173	55,565	11.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	131	31,807	6.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	127	22,375	4.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	88	20,093	4.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	25	12,736	2.7
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	28	12,509	2.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	44	9,466	2.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	17	9,407	2.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	20	9,134	1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	74	8,016	1.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	27	7,523	1.6
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	20	6,622	1.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	51	6,175	1.3
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	18	6,080	1.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	18	5,978	1.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	35	5,751	1.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	40	4,323	0.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	51	3,406	0.7
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	20	3,174	0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	48	3,170	0.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	25	3,122	0.7
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,029	0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,952	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	18	2,841	0.6
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	25	2,332	0.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,854	0.4
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,720	0.4
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,485	0.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,361	0.3
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,277	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,088	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	22	1,069	0.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	1,063	0.2
The Protestant Conference (Lutheran)	Evangelical Protestant	4	980	0.2
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	914	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	3	754	0.2
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	10	663	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	10	660	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	629	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	547	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	9	532	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	474	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	277	0.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	2	227	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	221	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	200	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	100	0.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	99	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	26	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	4,623	3,028,355

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 4,705,767. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,028,355) include 64.4% 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.