Index| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baptist | Utah | - | 2.40% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Baptist | Utah | - | 2.00% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. "American Religious Identity Survey. " 2001. City University of New York. | ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Listed in table: "Baptist " |
| Baptist | Vermont | - | 10.00% | 2 units |
- | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 277-281. | Table A.1: "Denominational Percentages by Colony, 1776, Based on Number of Congregations "; Total num. of congreg. = 20. |
| Baptist | Vermont | - | 0.90% | 2 units |
- | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 277-281. | Table A.1: "Denominational Percentages by Colony, 1776, Based on Number of Congregations "; Total num. of congreg. = 20. Denominational % (10%) multiplied by state's adherence rate from table on pg. 27: 9%. |
| Baptist | Vermont | - | 5.60% | - | - | 1850 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 252-288. | Table A.2: "Denominational Adherents per 1,000 Population, 1850 "; "The adherence rates were estimated from Bureau of the Census (1854) reports on the number of churches, the seating capacity of churches & the value of church property. " |
| Baptist | Vermont | - | 5.30% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Baptist | Vermont | - | 3.00% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. "American Religious Identity Survey. " 2001. City University of New York. | ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Listed in table: "Baptist " |
| Baptist | Virgin Islands | 40,841 | 42.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) | Total population: 97,240 (July 1997 est.) note: West Indian (45% born in the Virgin Islands and 29% born elsewhere in the West Indies) 74%, US mainland 13%, Puerto Rican 5%, other 8%. Religion: Baptist 42%, Roman Catholic 34%, Episcopalian 17%, other 7%. |
| Baptist | Virgin Islands (British) | 535 | 4.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) | Protestant 86% (Methodist 45%, Anglican 21%, Church of God 7%, Seventh-Day Adventist 5%, Baptist 4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 2%, other 2%), Roman Catholic 6%, none 2%, other 6% (1981); Total population: 13,368 (1997 est.). |
| Baptist | Virginia | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1714 | Armstrong, O.K. & Marjorie Armstrong. The Baptists in America. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1979) [revised 2nd edition; originally published in 1967 under the title The Indomitable Baptists]; pg. 84-85. | "However, Dr. Morgan Edwards, the Baptists had a way of 'persevering to the end,' even though it was not until 1714 that the first Anabaptist church was organized in Virginia, in the wilderness of Prince George's County. " |
| Baptist | Virginia | - | 29.90% | 147 units |
- | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 277-281. | Table A.1: "Denominational Percentages by Colony, 1776, Based on Number of Congregations "; Total num. of congreg. = 491. |
| Baptist | Virginia | - | 3.59% | 147 units |
- | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 277-281. | Table A.1: "Denominational Percentages by Colony, 1776, Based on Number of Congregations "; Total num. of congreg. = 491. Denominational % (29.9%) multiplied by state's adherence rate from table on pg. 27: 12%. |
| Baptist | Virginia | 20,000 | - | 200 units |
- | 1790 | Armstrong, O.K. & Marjorie Armstrong. The Baptists in America. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1979) [revised 2nd edition; originally published in 1967 under the title The Indomitable Baptists]; pg. 111. | "A study completed in 1900 by Baptist historian J. M. Carroll of Texas pictures the growth of the Baptists in the southern states during the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first ten or twelve years of the nineteenth. In Virginia... there were about 200 Baptist churches with 20,000 members in 1790. " |
| Baptist | Virginia | 35,000 | - | 400 units |
- | 1800 | Armstrong, O.K. & Marjorie Armstrong. The Baptists in America. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1979) [revised 2nd edition; originally published in 1967 under the title The Indomitable Baptists]; pg. 111. | "A study completed in 1900 by Baptist historian J. M. Carroll of Texas pictures the growth of the Baptists in the southern states during the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first ten or twelve years of the nineteenth. In Virginia... there were about 200 Baptist churches with 20,000 members in 1790. One decade later the numbers had grown to about 400 churches with 35,000 members. " |
| Baptist | Virginia | - | 9.60% | - | - | 1850 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 252-288. | Table A.2: "Denominational Adherents per 1,000 Population, 1850 "; "The adherence rates were estimated from Bureau of the Census (1854) reports on the number of churches, the seating capacity of churches & the value of church property. " |
| Baptist | Virginia | - | 31.20% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Baptist | Virginia | - | 31.00% | - | - | 1994 | Neusner, Jacob (ed). World Religions in America: An Introduction; Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press (1994); pg. 41. | "...fewer than two out of a hundred Americans today call themselves Episcopalian, and even in Virginia only three out of a hundred citizens do (as opposed to thirty-one who call themselves Baptists!) " |
| Baptist | Virginia | - | 30.00% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. "American Religious Identity Survey. " 2001. City University of New York. | ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Listed in table: "Baptist " |
| Baptist | Virginia - whites | - | 6.58% | 147 units |
- | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 277-281. | Table A.1: "Denominational Percentages by Colony, 1776, Based on Number of Congregations "; Total num. of congreg. = 491. Denominational % (29.9%) multiplied by state's adherence rate from table on pg. 27: 22%. [Figure for whites calculated separately for southern states where large numbers of black slaves, few of whom were religiously affiliated at this time; otherwise southern denominational % figures are skewed lower.] |
| Baptist | Washington | - | 7.20% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Baptist | Washington | - | 6.00% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. "American Religious Identity Survey. " 2001. City University of New York. | ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Listed in table: "Baptist " |
| Baptist | Washington, D.C. | - | 46.80% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. [Geographic region in this table is listed as "District of Columbia ", not "Washington, D.C. "] |
| Baptist | Washington, D.C. | - | 19.00% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. "American Religious Identity Survey. " 2001. City University of New York. | ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Listed in table: "Baptist " |
| Baptist | West Indies | 400,000 | - | - | - | 1994 | *LINK* Statistics from Baptists Around the Worldby Albert W. Wardin | Location listed in table as "West Indies " |
| Baptist | West Virginia | - | 29.30% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Baptist | West Virginia | - | 30.00% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. "American Religious Identity Survey. " 2001. City University of New York. | ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Listed in table: "Baptist " |
| Baptist | Wisconsin | - | 3.00% | - | - | 1850 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); pg. 252-288. | Table A.2: "Denominational Adherents per 1,000 Population, 1850 "; "The adherence rates were estimated from Bureau of the Census (1854) reports on the number of churches, the seating capacity of churches & the value of church property. " |
| Baptist | Wisconsin | - | 4.00% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Baptist | Wisconsin | - | 6.00% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. "American Religious Identity Survey. " 2001. City University of New York. | ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Listed in table: "Baptist " |
| Baptist | world | - | - | 1 unit |
1 country |
1608 | Stuber, Stanley I. How We Got Our Denominations: A Primer on Church History. New York: Association Press Revised Ed., 1959); pg. 191. | "The Baptist churches... are purely an English product. The first church of this denomination was established by a body of English refugees who settled in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1608. " |
| Baptist | world | 22,000,000 | 0.88% | - | - | 1957 | Welles, Sam. The World's Great Religions, New York: Time Incorporated (1957); pg. 204-205. | Table: "Christians, Their Practices "; "Baptists: Members in world, 22 million adults... Concepts of Salvation and Afterlife: Sin is not living up to God's law; salvation is by God's grace and one's personal faith in Christ. Some Baptists accept literal heaven, hell, others interpret them symbolically. Many accept physical resurrection, the Second Coming of Christ and Last Judgment. " |
| Baptist | world | 22,000,000 | - | - | - | 1958 | Welles, Sam. The World's Great Religions, New York: Western Publishing Co. (1972). [11th printing; original edition: 1958]; pg. 155. | "One of [the Protestant Reformation's] most notable figures was John Bunyan, forerunner of the present Baptists, who now have 22 million members. " |
| Baptist | world | 22,000,000 | - | - | - | 1959 | Stuber, Stanley I. How We Got Our Denominations: A Primer on Church History. New York: Association Press Revised Ed., 1959); pg. 191. | "The Baptists of the whole world, numbering some twenty-two million, are united in the Baptist World Alliance. " [See also pg. 194] |
| Baptist | world | 25,000,000 | - | - | - | 1962 | Rosten, Leo (ed.). Religions in America; New York: Simon & Schuster (1963), 8th ed. [1st pub. in 1952. 8th ed. completely revised]; pg. 20. | "In 1962, there were nearly 25,000,000 Baptists in the world. An accurate tabulation is impossible because religious statistics cannot be compiled in countries behind the Iron Curtain. It is estimated that there are 2,000,000 Baptists in Soviet Russia. " |
| Baptist | world | - | - | - | 118 countries |
1965 | Armstrong, O.K. & Marjorie Armstrong. The Baptists in America. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1979) [revised 2nd edition; originally published in 1967 under the title The Indomitable Baptists]; pg. 313. | "At the 1965 Baptist World Congress, reports showed that Baptists of the U.S. had missionary work and churches, increasingly being led and manned by nationals, in every one of the 188 countries listed at that time as members of the United Nations. " |
| Baptist | world | 35,000,000 | - | - | - | 1972 | Marty, Martin E. Protestantism (History of Religion Series). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1972); pg. 26. | "Approximately equal in size to the Methodist churches [30,000,000] if taken seprately are the members of the Baptist complex. But if these are united with Congregationalism, the 35,000,000- plus 5,000,000-member combination ranks the 'independent' or 'free churches' with Presbyterian-Reformed and Agnlican communions [each with 40,000,000] " |
| Baptist | world | 35,000,000 | - | - | - | 1975 | Wallechinsky, David & Irving Wallace; The People's Almanac; Garden City, NY: Doubleday (1975); pg. 1267. | List of "Major World Religions ": "About 4/5 of the 35 million Baptists in the world live in the U.S. " |
| Baptist | world | 46,227,320 | - | - | - | 1979 | Armstrong, O.K. & Marjorie Armstrong. The Baptists in America. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. (1979) [revised 2nd edition; originally published in 1967 under the title The Indomitable Baptists]; pg. 439. | "The Baptist 'community'--children and other persons receiving pastoral care in home and elsewhre--is reasonably estimated at 46,227,319. " |
| Baptist | world | 33,300,000 | - | - | - | 1980 | Walls, Andrew. "Christianity " in Hinnells, John R. (ed). A Handbook of Living Religions, Penguin Books: New York (1991) [reprint; 1st published in 1984]; pg. 108. | "Figure 2.7: Northern (non-Latin Western) Christianity [i.e. Protestantism], 1980: world figures (after Barrett, 1982) " |
| Baptist | world | - | - | - | 122 countries |
1981 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 91. | "Today, although the Baptists are strongest in the United States, there are Baptist churches in 122 countries. " |
| Baptist | world | - | - | - | - | 1981 | Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 173. | "Baptists, strongest in the United States but growing rapidly in the developing nations... " |
| Baptist | world | 50,321,924 | - | - | - | 1985 | Ash, Russell. The Top 10 of Everything 1997, DK Publishing: New York (1996); pg. 84. | Table: "Top 10 Christian Affiliations in the World " (listing of religious "affiliations ", or denominational families, with largest numbers of adherents, based on mid-1980s. Ranked #6 |
| Baptist | world | 33,000,000 | - | - | - | 1986 | Barnhart, Joe Edward. The Southern Baptist Holy War. Austin, Texas: Texas Monthly Press (1986). [Orig. source: James Leo Garrett, Jr., "Who Are the Baptists? " The Baylor Line, 47:3 (June 1985), p. 11]; pg. 237. | "Currently there are more than 33 million Baptists of various sorts around the globe. " |
| Baptist | world | 33,000,000 | - | - | - | 1986 | Pastva, Loretta. Great Religions of the World; Winona, Minnesota: Saint Mary's Press, Christian Brothers Publications (1995) [9th printing. 1st printing in 1986]; pg. 217. | "About 29 million of the total 33 million Baptists worldwide live in the United States. " |
| Baptist | world | 31,000,000 | - | - | - | 1987 | Bishop, Peter & Michael Darton (editors). The Encyclopedia of World Faiths: An Illustrated Survey of the World's Living Faiths. New York: Facts on File Publications (1987); pg. 128. | "World [Baptist] membership figures exceed 31 million. " |
| Baptist | world | 100,000,000 | - | - | - | 1993 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (10th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1995). | "Finally there is the growing Baptist World Alliance, organized in 1905, which now includes more than 40 milion Baptists in 170 member bodies. (The worldwide community of Baptist members, friends, and sympathizers is reliably estimated at 100 million) " |
| Baptist | world | - | - | - | - | 1994 | *LINK* Hexham, Irving. Concise Dictionary of Religion. Carol Stream, USA: InterVarsity Press (1994). (v. online 6 Oct. 1999) | "BAPTISTS: Baptists trace their origin to the seventeenth century and were once named 'ANABAPTISTS.' They believe that the BAPTISM of mature believers is the accepted mark of CHURCH membership. They strongly emphasize the independence of the local Church, although individual Churches are linked to associations of various kinds. Early on they split into two groups: General Baptists which are ARMINIAN in THEOLOGY and Particular Baptists which are CALVINIST. Today, Baptists form a loose family of Churches with their main numerical base in the USA. Although there are international and national bodies many Baptist Churches belong to neither, hence the great diversity of belief and practice. " |
| Baptist | world | 37,325,000 | - | - | - | 1994 | *LINK* Statistics from Baptists Around the Worldby Albert W. Wardin | (Added up numbers for each region) |
| Baptist | world | 33,000,000 | - | - | - | 1997 | 1998 Catholic Almanac: Our Sunday Visitor: USA (1997); pg. 279. | "The total number of U.S. Baptists is more than 29 million. The world total is 33 million. " |
| Baptist | world | 54,236,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | Ash, Russell. The Top 10 of Everything 1999. New York: DK Publishing (1998); pg. 77. | Table: "Top 10 Organized Religious Groups in the World "; Rank: #8 |
| Baptist | world | 67,146,000 | - | - | - | 1998 | Ash, Russell. The Top 10 of Everything 1999. New York: DK Publishing (1998); pg. 76. | Table: "Top 10 Christian Denominations in the World "; Rank: #5 |
| Baptist | world | 100,000,000 | - | - | 200 countries |
1998 | *LINK* official web site (1998) | "There are 192 Baptist unions & conventions in over 200 countries that have a membership of more than 42 million baptized believers. This represents a community of approx. 100 million Baptists joined in the Baptist World Alliance which unites Baptists worldwide " |
| Baptist | Wyoming | - | 8.60% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 88-93. | Table 3-1: Religious Composition of State Populations, 1990 (%). Self-identification of religious loyalty, phone survey w/ 113,000 people; by City U. of New York. |
| Baptist | Wyoming | - | 9.00% | - | - | 2001 | *LINK* Kosmin, Barry A.; Egon Mayer; & Ariela Keysar. "American Religious Identity Survey. " 2001. City University of New York. | ARIS: Nationwide phone survey of 50,000 American adults; open-ended question: 'What is your religion, if any?'; Listed in table: "Baptist " |
| Baptist | Yukon | 1,000 | 3.59% | - | - | 1991 | Gall, Timothy L. & Susan Bevan Gall (editors). Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces. Detroit: U.X.L. (1997), [Source: Canadian Census]; pg. 186. | "In 1991, 43.1% of the population--or about 12,000 people--was Protestant, including... 1,000 Baptists, 650 Lutherans, 600 Pentecostals, and 350 Presbyterians. " |
| Baptist | Yukon | 1,000 | 3.61% | - | - | 1991 | *LINK* web site: "Statistics Canada "; web page: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census " (viewed 9 Jan. 1999); Source: Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 93-319-XPB. | table: "Population, by religion, 1991 Census " |
| Baptist | Zambia | 16,000 | - | - | - | 1979 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: OPERATION WORLD 1979); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | Anglicans 90,000; Reformed Church (S. African DRC) 90,000+; Baptists (3 groups) 16,000; Brethren (CMML) 50,000; Evangelical (AEF) 20,000; Brethren in Christ 6,000. |
| Baptist - black | USA | 18,368 | - | - | - | 1793 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (9th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1990); pg. 43. | "In 1793 there were 73,471 Baptists in the U.S., one-fourth of them black; in 1806, one-third of the Baptists of North Carolina were black. " |
| Baptist - black | USA | 150,000 | - | - | - | 1861 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (9th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1990); pg. 43. | "When the Battle of Bull Run was fought in 1861, there were 200,000 black members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and 150,000 black Baptists. " |
| Baptist - black | USA | 1,800,000 | - | - | - | 1895 | Marty, Martin E. Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. (1984); pg. 255. | "In 1895 at Atlanta they formed the National Baptist Convention of the U.S.A., which claimed most of the 1.8 million black Baptists. " |
| Baptist - black denominations | Alabama | 398,793 | 9.87% | - | - | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center (Mars Hill, NC). Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. Courtesy of American Religion Data Archive. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. More exclusive 'members' column: 315,331. [Listed as 'Black Baptists Estimate.'] |
| Baptist - black denominations | Alaska | 5,530 | 1.01% | - | - | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. More exclusive 'members': 4,175. [Listed as 'Black Baptists Estimate.'] |
| Baptist - black denominations | Arizona | 28,851 | 0.79% | - | - | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. More exclusive 'members': 22,765. [Listed as 'Black Baptists Estimate.'] |
| Baptist - black denominations | Arkansas | 121,542 | 4.92% | - | - | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. More exclusive 'members': 94,807. [Listed as 'Black Baptists Estimate.'] |
| Baptist - black denominations | California | 595,070 | 2.00% | - | - | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. More exclusive 'members': 470,875. [Listed as 'Black Baptists Estimate.'] |
Baptist - black denominations, continued 