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	968	1,554,278	317.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	743	460,168	94.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	428	248,876	50.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	409	222,151	45.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	516	152,426	31.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	253	94,010	19.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	79,628	16.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	171	48,052	9.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	150	35,527	7.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	35	34,605	7.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	130	27,561	5.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	84	19,423	4.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	27	12,871	2.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	10	12,125	2.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	42	11,530	2.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	52	10,788	2.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	58	10,782	2.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	72	10,666	2.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	31	9,907	2.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	83	8,935	1.8
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	8,600	1.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	58	7,771	1.6
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	45	6,200	1.3
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	21	6,137	1.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	19	6,046	1.2
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	20	5,846	1.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	35	5,738	1.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	29	5,438	1.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	50	5,157	1.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	69	4,695	1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	23	4,339	0.9
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	13	3,249	0.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	20	2,574	0.5
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,995	0.4
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,692	0.4
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,518	0.3
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,440	0.3
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,440	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,406	0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	19	1,212	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	17	1,123	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,062	0.2
The Protestant Conference (Lutheran)	Evangelical Protestant	5	955	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	12	954	0.2
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	1,000	0.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	14	938	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	18	892	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	7	781	0.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	715	0.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	718	0.2
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	10	515	0.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	2	537	0.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	2	444	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	450	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	436	0.1
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	395	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	11	340	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	276	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	303	0.1
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	2	274	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	171	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	59	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	13	0.0
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	11	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	55	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	7	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	12	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	7	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	36	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	5,023	3,160,201

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 4,891,769. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,160,201) include 64.6% 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.