Lorain County, Ohio
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
% Change |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-171 |
-14.1% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-1,099 |
-36.7% |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+31 |
14.9% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
-2 |
+4,908 |
7.2% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+70 |
61.4% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+569 |
30.5% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-55 |
-45.8% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+375 |
30.0% |
| Church of God General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-12 |
-21.4% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-11 |
-12.1% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
0 |
+104 |
14.1% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-23 |
-43.4% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-82 |
-8.3% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+51 |
7.5% |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+136 |
170.0% |
| Enterprise Baptists Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+39 |
37.9% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-433 |
-38.5% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-232 |
-7.4% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+30 |
214.3% |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+190 |
54.3% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+289 |
50.0% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+60 |
89.6% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
+1 |
-95 |
-11.2% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-681 |
-14.1% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-44 |
-42.3% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-10 |
-3.2% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-39 |
-35.8% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-135 |
-10.2% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+897 |
383.3% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-113 |
-20.6% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+613 |
8.2% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
0 |
+26 |
96.3% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-8 |
-2,715 |
-22.6% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-889 |
-8.3% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-10 |
-3.6% |
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Totals: |
-5 |
+1,539 |
+1.3% |
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 271,126;
in 2000 it was 284,664. The total population changed 5.0%. The adherent
totals for 1990 (130,769) represent 48.2% of the 1990 population. The
adherent totals for 2000 (130,555) include 45.9% of the 2000
population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in
both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 35 groups to
calculate 1990-2000 change. These 35 groups had 122,734 adherents in
1990 and 124,273 adherents in 2000, for a change of 1.3%
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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