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what does one expect from the national council of churches?


173 posted on 07/13/2006 2:04:34 PM PDT by Coleus (I Support Research using the Ethical, Effective and Moral use of stem cells: non-embryonic "adult")
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Membership Statistics
For The National Council of Churches' Member Communions
Current as of 07/07/2005

Religious
Body

Year
Reporting

Number of
Churches
Reporting

Inclusive
Membership

Number of
Pastors Serving
Parishes

African Methodist Episcopal Church

1999

2,500,000

7,741

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

2003

3,236

1,432,795

3,285

The Alliance of Baptists in the U.S.A.

2002

128

63,870

286

American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.

2003

5,834

1,433,075

4,277

The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

2003

226

390,000

400

Armenian Apostolic Church, Diocese of America

1991

72

414,000

49

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada

2003

3,717

770,793

3,412

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

2002

3,300

850,000

3,001

Church of the Brethren

2003

1,062

132,481

796

Coptic Orthodox Church

2000

100

300,000

140

Episcopal Church

2002

7,305

2,320,221

6,060

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

2003

10,657

4,984,925

9,225

Friends United Meeting

2002

427

42,680

306

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

2003

510

1,500,000

570

Hungarian Reformed Church in America

2001

27

6,000

27

International Council of Community Churches

2003

126

108,806

283

Korean Presbyterian Church in America, General Assembly of the

2003

302

55,000

465

Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Diocese of America

Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India

2003

72

35,000

45

Moravian Church in America (Unitas Fratrum)

2003

92

24,650

90

National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.

2000

3,500,000

National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.

9,000

5,000,000

National Missionary Baptist Convention of America

1992

2,500,000

The Orthodox Church in America

2003

731

1,000,000

798

Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A.

31

7,000

45

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

2003

104

11,874

0

Polish National Catholic Church of America

2003

60,000

120

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

2003

11,064

3,241,309

8,945

Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.

1995

2,000

2,500,000

Reformed Church in America

2003

897

278,739

828

Serbian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Canada

1986

68

67,000

60

The Swedenborgian Church

2003

40

1,677

26

Syrian (Syriac) Orthodox Church of Antioch

2003

31

32,500

26

Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A.

2000

115

13,000

103

United Church of Christ

2003

5,738

1,296,652

4,219

The United Methodist Church

2002

35,102

8,251,175

24,269

Totals

106,288

45,125,222

79,897

Current as of 07/07/2005


See also:  The Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA)

National Council of Churches USA -- Home Page
Membership Statistics for National Council of Churches Members

176 posted on 07/13/2006 2:12:26 PM PDT by Coleus (I Support Research using the Ethical, Effective and Moral use of stem cells: non-embryonic "adult")
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