1997 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches
U.S. Religious Bodies with more than 60,000 Members
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 Source: Kenneth B. Bedell, editor, Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, annual (copyright).
\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)
Updated January 9, 1997
