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The table below was prepared for the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. It is for the 1997 edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States.

Religious Body	Year reported	Churches reported	Membership	Clergy serving parishes \1
African Methodist Episcopal Church \2	1991	8,000	3,500,000	(NA)
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	1996	3,098	1,230,842	2,571
American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.	1995	5,823	1,517,400	4,974
Armenian Apostolic Church of America	1995	28	180,000	23
Assemblies of God	1995	11,823	2,387,982	17,693
Baptist Bible Fellowship International	1995	3,600	1,500,000	(NA)
Baptist General Conference	1995	857	135,008	(NA)
Baptist Missionary Association of America	1995	1,355	231,191	1,300
Christian Brethren (aka Plymouth Brethren)	1994	1,150	98,000	500
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	1995	4,036	929,725	4,010
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	1988	5,579	1,070,616	5,525
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church	1983	2,340	718,922	2,340
Christian Reformed Church in North America	1996	716	206,789	666
Church of God (Anderson, Ind.)	1995	2,307	224,061	3,011
Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.)	1995	6,060	753,230	3,121
Church of God of Prophecy	1995	1,961	72,859	8,636
Church of the Brethren	1995	1,114	143,121	844
Church of the Nazarene	1995	5,135	601,900	5,111
Churches of Christ	1995	13,020	1,655,000	10,000
Conservative Baptist Association of America	1992	1,084	200,000	(NA)
Coptic Orthodox Church	1992	85	180,000	65
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	1995	783	87,896	(NA)
Diocese of the Armenian Church of America	1991	72	414,000	49
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	1995	10,955	5,190,489	9,819
Free Methodist Church of North America	1995	1,068	74,707	(NA)
Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches & Ministers Internat.	1995	650	195,000	725
General Association of General Baptists	1990	876	74,156	1,384
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	1994	1,458	136,380	(NA)
Grace Gospel Fellowship	1992	128	60,000	160
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	1977	532	1,950,000	610
Hindu \3	1990	(NA)	227,000	(NA)
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	1995	670	69,857	(NA)
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	1995	1,742	227,307	(NA)
International Council of Community Churches	1995	517	250,000	491
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	1995	1,653	157,163	(NA)
Jehovah's Witnesses	1995	10,541	966,243	(NA)
Jewish \3	1990	(NA)	3,137,000	(NA)
Mennonite Church	1995	986	90,812	1,350
Muslim/Islamic \3	1990	(NA)	527,000	(NA)
National Assoc. of Congregational Christian Churches	1995	426	70,000	600
National Association of Free Will Baptists	1995	2,491	213,716	2,800
National Baptist Convention of America, Inc	1987	2,500	3,500,000	8,000
National Baptist Convention, USA,Inc.	1992	33,000	8,200,000	32,832
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America	1992	(NA)	2,500,000	(NA)
Old Order Amish Church	1993	898	80,820	3,592
Pentecostal Assemblies of the World	1994	1,760	1,000,000	4,262
Pentecostal Church of God	1995	1,224	119,200	(NA)
Polish National Catholic Church of America	1960	162	282,411	141
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	1995	11,361	3,669,489	9,588
Presbyterian Church in America	1995	1,299	267,764	1,522
Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.	1995	2,000	2,500,000	(NA)
Reformed Church in America	1995	908	306,312	855
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints	1995	1,160	177,779	16,671
Serbian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Canada	1986	68	67,000	60
Seventh-day Adventist Church	1995	4,297	790,731	2,307
Southern Baptist Convention	1995	40,039	15,663,296	38,123
The American Baptist Association	1986	1,705	250,000	1,740
The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of N. Am.	1995	184	300,000	200
The Christian Congregation, Inc.	1995	1,431	113,259	1,427
The Christian and Missionary Alliance	1995	1,957	307,366	1,578
The Church of God in Christ	1991	15,300	5,499,875	28,988
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	1995	10,417	4,711,500	31,251
The Episcopal Church	1995	7,415	2,536,550	8,037
The Evangelical Covenant Church	1995	(NA)	91,458	(NA)
The Evangelical Free Church of America	1996	1,224	242,619	1,936
The Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod	1995	6,154	2,594,555	5,287
The Orthodox Church in America	1995	600	2,000,000	650
The Roman Catholic Church	1995	19,726	60,280,454	(NA)
The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	1995	37	65,000	37
The Salvation Army	1995	1,264	453,150	3,645
The United Methodist Church	1995	36,361	8,538,662	19,560
The Wesleyan Church	1995	1,624	115,867	1,785
Unitarian Universalists \3	1990	(NA)	502,000	(NA)
United Church of Christ	1995	6,145	1,472,213	4,439
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	1995	1,252	412,478	1,198

NA = Not available
\1 = Does not include retired clergy or clergy not working with congregations
\2 = Figures obtained from the Directory of African American Religious Bodies, 1991
\3 = Figures obtained from the National Survey of Religious Identification, a survey conducted by the City University of New York in 1990 and published in "One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society," by Barry Kosmin and Seymour Lachman (1993)

Source: Kenneth B. Bedell, editor, Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, annual (copyright).

Contact: Kenneth Bedell
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Updated January 9, 1997