Alabama

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,804,961	437,296	3,000	150,647	39,469	2,011,727
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	168	150,647	33.9
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	36	6,286	1.4
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	90	0.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	367	59,970	13.5
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	388	0.1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,106	0.5
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	66	0.0
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	19	1,150	0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	30	3,972	0.9
Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	2	50	0.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	68	4,082	0.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	386	68,766	15.5
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	2	405	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	88	3,908	0.9
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	305	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	123	13,635	3.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	895	119,049	26.8
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,083	0.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	61	6,590	1.5
Duck River and Kindred Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	26	3,896	0.9
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	273	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	525	0.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	218	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	166	0.0
Independent Free Will Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	3	154	0.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	14	6,430	1.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	14	7,319	1.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,200	0.3
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	169	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	42	4,601	1.0
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,175	0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	63	11,488	2.6
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.0
Mennonite; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	14	587	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	165	23,716	5.3
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	113	16,984	3.8
Old Missionary Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	29	4,324	1.0
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	61	0.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	285	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	108	24,020	5.4
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	147	n.a.	n.a.
Progressive Primitive Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	6	530	0.1
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,468	0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	80	16,792	3.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	3,148	1,380,121	310.3
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	20	n.a.	n.a.
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	4	0.0
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,902	0.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,312	0.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	210	0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	3	8,304	1.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	56	9,572	2.2
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	61	0.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	118	45,041	10.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	24	5,346	1.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	159	0.0
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	10	2,442	0.6
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	5	230	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	158	34,551	7.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	23	3,412	0.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,416	327,734	73.7
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	6	444	0.1
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	0	0.0
Coptic Orthodox Church	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	2,796	0.6
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	204	0.1
Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Bahá'í	Other Theology	9	1,423	0.3
Buddhism	Other Theology	7	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	69	20,397	4.6
Hindu	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	18	9,100	2.1
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	20	7,670	1.7
Sikh	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	9	879	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	8,343	2,435,373
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		3,307,454

The population of these 67 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 4,040,587; in 2000 it was 4,447,100. The total population changed 10.1%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,435,373) include 54.8% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (3,307,454) include 74.4% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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