Catholic, Mormon, and Pentecostal Churches Fastest Growing

[oat_soda]

Well that would hold true for Florida, the baptist got the hick areas in north and the swamp land in the everglades and the catholics have all the beachs!

my thoughts exactly. i believe that many of these catholic areas in florida are transplants from the northeast, of whom the majority are retired. there is also a sizeable jewish population in some florida towns.

though originally from south jersey, i live in southern louisianna now and love the catholic presence here. i’ve lived in the heart of baptist country in oklahoma and can tell you that living in a catholic area is better, even if they are apostate catholics. it seems to me that catholics tend to be less ignorant then the fundamentalists, even though most fundamentalists are good christian people.

now, the protestant british forced the acadians into the swamps of louisianna. and in fact, most of the coast line from corpus christi well into mississippi are predominately catholic even though they are in the deep south.

 

[beckers]

I have a problem because the map and the census are missing the Osais Of Love Church- Lake wood Church in Texas (it’s housed in the old Summit building…Ugliest “Church” I have ever seen…) and other Mega Churches.

Lakewood claims 30,000 people a week and over 7 million who watch on TV…Do they consider themselves christain or do those people watching actually consider themselves a certain religion?

worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44382

 

[vern_humphrey]

urbana:

Sorry to burst your bubble, but assuming current rates, it would take 77.27 years for there to be as many Orthodox as Catholics. (I think you used 64% growth for the Orthodox Church.)

Apply the Rule of 78. To determine how long it will take the principal to double, divide 78 by the percent increase.

78/6.4 = 12.1875 years.

If, starting with 1,064,000 member, the Orthodox continue to increase at 6.40% annually, it will take them 12 years to reach the 2 million mark, and 24 years to reach 4 millon. By the end of the century they will be about half of what the Catholics are right now.

 

[Amadeus]

I think the numbers for the OCA and the GOA are both inflated. So, future predictions should be off by a mile!

The OCA has claimed “3 million” membership a while back but, currently and “officially,” they claim around “400,000” members. (Cf. OCAnews.org )

GOA (for the entire U.S.) have been ranging their membership between “300,000” and “2 million” but there is no credible way to ascertain the numbers.

From a “disinterested” viewpoint, the Glenmary research group should be more trustworthy as the Center is manned by Catholic missionaries in the Southern U.S., right into the traditional Protestant Bible Belt, which comes out periodically with the demographics of religious adherence in the entire U.S. for budgeting and pastoral purposes.

See: glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/findings.htm

From Glenmary’s data as of 2000, their list of adherents is linked below. The OCA is separated into, and represented by, individual dioceses. The GOA, as well as the ROC, ACROD, ROCOR, and other “splinter” Orthodox groups, are NOT members of the OCA and are separate Orthodox jurisdictions:

ext.nazarene.org/rcms/listofgroupswithreportednumbers.html