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May 30, 2022 · With an estimated 228.1 million Christians in the United States (including non-actives), that’s an average of 760 members per congregation. If this ratio is projected to the whole world, that gives us a much more down to earth figure of 3.1 million church buildings.
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The majority of Christian Americans are Protestant Christians (140 million; 42%), though there are also significant numbers of American Roman Catholics (70 million; 21%) and other Christian denominations such as Latter Day Saints, Eastern Orthodox Christians and Oriental Orthodox Christians, and Jehovah's Witnesses (about 13 million in total; 4 ...
Sep 14, 2017 · Using the National Congregations Study (NCS) conducted in 2006 and 2012, he estimates the number of congregations in the US increased from 336,000 in 1998 to a peak of 414,000 in 2006, but then...
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) In 1965, the CC(DoC) had 1,918,471 members. In 2012, the membership was 625,252, a decline of 67 percent.
- Reformed Church in America. In 1967, the RCA had 384,751 members. In 2014, the membership was 145,466, a decline of 62 percent.
- United Church of Christ (Congregationalist) In 1965, the UCC had 2,070,413 members. In 2012, there were 998,906 members, a decline of 52 percent.
- Episcopal Church. In 1966, the TEC had 3,647,297 members. By 2013, the membership was 1,866,758, a decline of 49 percent. (Those numbers should be even lower, though, since those figures by the TEC include breakaway churches trying to leave the denomination.)
Oct 31, 2017 · So, it seems we are safe in saying there are at least nearly 200 major Protestant denominations or denominational categories in the United States. (This is the number I reported in my cover...
May 12, 2015 · Christians remain by far the largest religious group in the United States, but the Christian share of the population has declined markedly. In the past seven years, the percentage of adults who describe themselves as Christians has dropped from 78.4% to 70.6%.
Church historians, sociologists, and statisticians are going county by county, denomination by denomination, group of believers by group of believers, to compile the most complete record of...
