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Religious
Congregations & Membership: 2000
A
list of contact persons is provided below. For other
questions, contact Glenmary's Communications Office at 513-881-7442 or jbach@glenmary.org
Sampling
of Maps
There
are 24 four-color maps bound into Religious Congregations
& Membership in the United States:2000. Plus,
a 25" x 53" fold-out map of major religious
families in the United States is included. Nineteen
of these maps are congregation-specific; e.g. the Catholic,
Jewish and Muslim maps posted here.
Five
of the maps in the book take a larger view; those are
posted here.
- Participating
Eastern Christian Groups Includes: Albanian
Orthodox Diocese of America; American Carpatho-Russian
Orthodox Greek Catholic Church; Antiochian Orthodox
Christian Archdiocese of North America; Apostolic
Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American
Dioceses; Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate
of Cilicia; Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate
of Etchmiadzin; Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of the
USA; Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America; Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis; Holy Orthodox
Church in North America; Macedonian Orthodox Church:
American Diocese; Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian
Orthodox Church in North America; Malankara Orthodox
Syrian Church, American Diocese of the; Orthodox Church
in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese; Orthodox
Church in America: Bulgarian Diocese; Orthodox Church
in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America;
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses;
Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America and Canada;
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA; Syrian Orthodox
Church of Antioch; Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the
USA.
- Participating
Eastern Religious Groups Includes: Baha’is,
Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Taoists and Zoroastrians.
- Largest
Participating Religious Groups: Groups
With the Largest Number of Adherents. Largest
groups include: Catholic Church, Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-Day Saints, Evangelical Lutheran Chruch
in America, Southern Baprist Convention and United
Methodist Church. The “Other” category includes
39 groups with less than 50 counties each. Three of
these had more than 10 counties where each was the
largest group: Christian Churches and Churches of
Christ (42 counties), American Baptist Churches in
the USA (29 counties), and Lutheran Church-Missouri
Synod (24 counties).
- Largest
Participating Protestant Religious Groups: Protestant
Groups with the Largest Number of Adherents.
Largest groups include American Baptist Churches in
the USA, Assemblies of God, Christian Churches and
Churches of Christ, Episcopal Church, Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America, Lutheran Church-Missouri
Synod, Presbyterian Church USA, Southern Baptist Convention,
United Church of Christ, and United Methodist Church.
The “Other” category includes 44 groups
with less than 30 counties each. Two of these had
more than 10 counties where each was the largest group:
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (16 counties)
and Church of the Nazarene (11 counties).
- Percent
of Population Claimed by All Participating Religious
Groups: Adherents as a Percentage of Total
Population.
Additional
Resources:
• Media release dated Sept.
20, 2002
• Methodology and Cautions
• Key findings from study
• Key findings for
specific religious bodies
• Glossary of terms/abbreviations
• History and background
of the study
• Resource people to contact
• Listings and rankings
• To preview 2000 study online
• To order
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