Wyoming

Denominational Groups, 2000

56,063	45,756	100	80,421	48,385	263,057
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^†
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	128	45,793	101.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	74	59,565	131.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	67	18,674	41.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	52	5,212	11.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	50	9,894	21.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	44	11,228	24.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	39	13,099	28.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	32	2,159	4.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	29	8,749	19.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	22	1,821	4.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	21	6,977	15.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	20	9,088	20.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,284	5.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,505	5.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,436	3.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	12	836	1.8
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	12	267	0.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	12	2,845	6.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	11	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	9	n.a.	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	5,059	11.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	7	62	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	496	1.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	6	935	2.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	6	960	2.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	5	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	109	0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,907	4.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	139	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	353	0.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	61	0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	90	0.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	775	1.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	330	0.7
Berean Fundamental Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	315	0.7
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	1,195	2.6
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	86	0.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	94	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.1
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	105	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	0.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	608	1.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	766	216,375

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 453,588. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (216,375) include 47.7% 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.