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	% Change
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+10,377	403.1%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+101	273.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+643	233.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+4,257	78.3%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+5,725	73.7%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+981	69.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+22	+6,809	63.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+16	+5,313	46.1%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+309	43.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+3,547	32.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2,639	24.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+276	22.8%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+2,600	21.4%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	+92	17.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+3	+754	17.4%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+23	+5,478	15.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+855	14.9%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+405	12.5%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-89	+141,382	9.1%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+501	8.3%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-4	+25	7.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+245	5.2%
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	0	+11	4.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+3,264	0.7%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-8	-0.8%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+5	-78	-0.8%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-9	-2.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-277	-2.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+7	-7,570	-3.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+10	-10,520	-4.7%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+41	-328	-5.3%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-6	-600	-7.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-38	-8.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-11	-918	-10.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-11	-10,242	-10.9%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-261	-13.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-3,619	-13.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-6	-7,152	-14.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-16	-23,210	-15.2%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-13	-3,173	-16.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-170	-18.1%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	-6,375	-18.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-953	-18.5%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-269	-18.7%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,168	-20.0%
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	0	-85	-21.5%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-358	-31.9%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-74	-43.3%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-35	-59.3%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-13	-624	-70.0%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	-720	-72.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+2	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	-10	+117,755	+3.8%

The population of these 72 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 4,891,769; in 2000 it was 5,363,675. The total population changed 9.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (3,160,201) represent 64.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (3,241,659) include 60.4% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 51 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 51 groups had 3,064,956 adherents in 1990 and 3,182,711 adherents in 2000, for a change of 3.8%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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