• Church Growth: According To The 2003 Yearbook Of ...

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Church Growth: According to the 2003 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church experienced a 12% growth. Catholics followed with a 2.5% increase, while Mormons and the Assemblies of God each reported 2% growth in ‘01, the latest year for which figures are available. from the denominations.

· Roman Catholicism continues to be the nation’s largest church, reporting 65 million parishioners.

· Southern Baptist Convention: 16 million.

· United Methodist Church: 8.3 million.

· Church of God in Christ*: 5.5 million.

· Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 5.3 million.

· Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: 5.1 million.

· National Baptist Convention USA*: 5 million.

· National Baptist Convention of America*: 3.5 million.

· Presbyterian Church (USA): 3.5 million.

· Assemblies of God: 2.6 million. * = historically black churches. (PWB 3/13/03)

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