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| Group | Where | Number of Adherents |
% of total pop. |
Number of congreg./ churches/ units |
Number of countries |
Year | Source | Quote/ Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lutheran | Pennsylvania | - | 9.70% | 52 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. = 535. |
| Lutheran | Pennsylvania | - | 2.33% | 52 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. = 535. Denominational % (9.7%) multiplied by state's adherence rate from table on pg. 27: 24%. |
| Lutheran | Pennsylvania | 707,807 | 5.96% | 1,496 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. This "Lutheran " figure is an aggregate from organizational adherent statistics from the 12 major American Lutheran religious bodies. |
| Lutheran | Pennsylvania | - | 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. |
| Lutheran | Pennsylvania | - | 8.00% | - | - | 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: "Lutheran " |
| Lutheran | Pennsylvania: Philadelphia | 40,000 | 2.50% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 110. | Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Cities by Percentage ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Philadelphia pop: 1.6 million. |
| Lutheran | Philippines: Ilocos Norte | 138 | 0.03% | - | - | 1990 | *LINK* web site: "Province of Ilocos Norte Home Page " | "Table 3: HOUSEHOLD POPULATION BY RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION IN ILOCOS NORTE 1990 "; "Ilocos Norte had a pop. of 461,661 in 1990 " [table lists # of households & percentage. Adherent numbers here are based on % of total pop.]; [this entry: listed in able as "Lutheran Church "] |
| Lutheran | Prince Edward Island | 150 | 0.12% | - | - | 1991 | Gall, Timothy L. & Susan Bevan Gall (editors). Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces. Detroit: U.X.L. (1997), [Source: Canadian Census]; pg. 138. | "In 1991, 48.4% of the population, or about 62,800 people, was Protestant, including... 5,300 Baptists, 1,300 Pentecostals, and less than 150 Lutherans. " |
| Lutheran | Prince Edward Island | 100 | 0.08% | - | - | 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 " |
| Lutheran | Quebec | 13,800 | 0.20% | - | - | 1991 | Gall, Timothy L. & Susan Bevan Gall (editors). Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces. Detroit: U.X.L. (1997). [Orig. source: Canadian Census]; pg. 153-154. | "Only 5.9% of the population, or about 406,900 people, was Protestant, including... 27,600 Baptists, 10,800 Pentecotals, 20,700 Presbyterians, and 13,800 Lutherans. " |
| Lutheran | Quebec | 10,700 | 0.16% | - | - | 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 " |
| Lutheran | Rhode Island | 7,150 | 0.71% | 18 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. This "Lutheran " figure is an aggregate from organizational adherent statistics from the 12 major American Lutheran religious bodies. |
| Lutheran | Rhode Island | - | 0.70% | - | - | 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. |
| Lutheran | Rhode Island | - | 0.00% | - | - | 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: "Lutheran "; Actual % between 0 and 0.5%, so sell was left blank. |
| Lutheran | Russia | 5,000,000 | - | - | - | 1918 | Rosten, Leo (ed.). Religions in America; New York: Simon & Schuster (1963), 8th ed. [1st pub. in 1952. 8th ed. completely revised]; pg. 119. | "Lutherans constitute almost half of the Protestants of the world. It is impossible to give the total accurately. Of the 5,000,000 Lutherans who were in Russian in 1918, no one knows how many there are now. " |
| Lutheran | Saskatchewan | 83,070 | 8.40% | - | - | 1991 | Gall, Timothy L. & Susan Bevan Gall (editors). Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces. Detroit: U.X.L. (1997), [Source: Canadian Census]; pg. 172. | "In 1991, 53.4% of the population, or 528,088 people was Protestant. Membership in leading Protestant denominations in 1991 included... Lutheran, 83,070; Anglican, 71,203... " |
| Lutheran | Saskatchewan | 82,200 | 8.42% | - | - | 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 " |
| Lutheran | Saskatchewan: Saskatoon | - | - | 22 units |
- | 1998 | *LINK* web site: Saskatoon Free-Net:Religion (viewed 1998) | citywide religion directory for Saskatoon & area |
| Lutheran | Scandinavia | - | 95.00% | - | - | 1956 | Beck, Vector E. Why I Am a Lutheran. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons (1956); pg. 45. | "The Scandinavian countries, together with Iceland and Finland, are all nearly one hundred per cent Lutheran at the present time. " |
| Lutheran | Scandinavia | - | 95.00% | - | - | 1956 | Beck, Vector E. Why I Am a Lutheran. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons (1956); pg. 116. | "In the Scandinavian countries, nominally 95% Lutheran, Christian youth face the fact that in the midst of a growing secularism the Folk Church is held in a kind of passive esteem by the rank and file of the citizenry, with periodic outbursts of anti-clericalism from certain sections of the press and the film industry. " |
| Lutheran | Scandinavia | 25,000,000 | - | - | - | 1983 | Berger, Gilda. Religion: A Reference First Book. New York: Franklin Watts (1983); pg. 56. | "Lutheranism is the official religion of Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland--countries where there are some 25 million members. " |
| Lutheran | Slovenia | 19,731 | 1.00% | - | - | 1997 | *LINK* CIA World Factbook web site (viewed Aug. 1998) | Total population: 1,973,096. Roman Catholic 70.8% (including 2% Uniate), Lutheran 1%, Muslim 1%, other 27.2% |
| Lutheran | South Africa | 964,000 | - | - | - | 1978 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: OPERATION WORLD by P. J. Johnstone; STL Publications, P. O. Box 48, Bromley, Kent, England. Published in 1978.); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | Lutherans (5% White) 964,000 |
| Lutheran | South Africa | 829,483 | - | - | - | 1995 | *LINK* Evangelical Lutheran Church in America web site; web page: "January 25, 1996 News Releases " (viewed 9 July 1999). Story: "More than 60 Million Lutherans Worldwide " [96-01-003-FI] | List: "Countries with more than 1/2 million Lutherans " |
| Lutheran | South Africa | 850,000 | - | - | - | 1996 | 1997 Britannica Book of the Year; pg. 781-783. | Table: "Religion ": Divided by nations, with 2 columns: "Religious affiliation " & "1996 pop. " [of that religion]. Based on best avail. figures, whether census data, membership figures or estimates by analysts, as % of est. 1996 midyear pop. |
| Lutheran | South Africa - blacks | 700,000 | 2.97% | - | - | 1986 | Stein, R. Conrad. South Africa (series: Enchantment of the World). Chicago: Childrens Press (1986); pg. 24, 37. | Pg. 24: "estimated 1986 population of South Africa stood at 33,185,000... Using the government-created categories, 71% of the people were black, 17% were white, colored made up 9%...; Pg. 37: "Other black Christians, include 700,000 Lutherans, 800,000 Anglicans, 360,000 Presbyterians, and 1.6 million Roman Catholics. " |
| Lutheran | South America | 1,900,000 | - | - | - | 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. 114. | "[Lutheran] present-day distribution by continents is: 60,400,000 in Europe; 8,900,000 in North America; 2,300,000 in Asia; 1,900,000 in South America; 1,900,000 in Africa; and 500,000 in Australasia. " |
| Lutheran | South Carolina | - | 9.00% | 15 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. = 166. |
| Lutheran | South Carolina | - | 1.26% | 15 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. = 166. Denominational % (9%) multiplied by state's adherence rate from table on pg. 27: 14%. |
| Lutheran | South Carolina | 65,082 | 1.87% | 183 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. This "Lutheran " figure is an aggregate from organizational adherent statistics from the 12 major American Lutheran religious bodies. |
| Lutheran | South Carolina | - | 2.50% | - | - | 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. |
| Lutheran | South Carolina | - | 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: "Lutheran " |
| Lutheran | South Carolina - whites | - | 2.79% | 15 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. = 166. Denominational % (9%) multiplied by state's adherence rate from table on pg. 27: 31%. [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.] |
| Lutheran | South Dakota | 161,692 | 23.23% | 486 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. This "Lutheran " figure is an aggregate from organizational adherent statistics from the 12 major American Lutheran religious bodies. |
| Lutheran | South Dakota | - | 30.30% | - | - | 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. |
| Lutheran | South Dakota | - | 27.00% | - | - | 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: "Lutheran " |
| Lutheran | Suriname | 4,000 | - | - | - | 1979 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: OPERATION WORLD, 1979); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | Total population: 400,000. Animists 6 - 15%, Muslims 22%, Hindus 32%, Roman Catholics 21%. Protestants 20%. Protestant Community 72,000. Denominations 11. Major groups: Moravians 52,000; Reformed 9,700; Lutherans 4,000; Pentecostals 900. |
| Lutheran | Suriname | - | - | - | - | 1999 | Beatty, Noelle Blackmer. Suriname (series: Major World Nations). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers (1999); pg. 40. | "Lutherans and members of the Moravian Brethren join other Protestant religious communities in the capital. " |
| Lutheran | Sweden | - | 95.00% | - | - | 1973 | Zehavi, A.M. (editor) Handbook of the World's Religions. New York: Franklin Watts (1973); pg. 19. | "In Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland 95% to 98% of the people are members of the Lutheran Church... " |
| Lutheran | Sweden | 7,600,000 | - | - | - | 1994 | *LINK* [Orig. source: Barrett, David B. World Christian Encyclopedia (1994 Update)] | 7.6 in Sweden, 4.6 in Finland, 4.5 in Denmark, 3.9 in Norway, and 2.4 million in Indonesia. |
| Lutheran | Sweden | 7,630,000 | - | - | - | 1995 | *LINK* Evangelical Lutheran Church in America web site; web page: "January 25, 1996 News Releases " (viewed 9 July 1999). Story: "More than 60 Million Lutherans Worldwide " [96-01-003-FI] | List: "Countries with more than 1/2 million Lutherans " |
| Lutheran | Sweden | 7,920,000 | 90.00% | - | - | 1998 | Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 4 - Europe. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pg. 369. | "Location: Sweden; Population: 8.8 million; Religion: Church of Sweden (Lutheran) "; "Sweden's state religion is Lutheranism, & about 90% of the population belongs to the Church of Sweden, the country's Lutheran church... Of the 90% Lutheran population, only 10% of these Swedes attend church. " |
| Lutheran | Tanzania | 580,000 | - | - | - | 1979 | *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: OPERATION WORLD, 1979); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted.) | Denominations 18. Biggest: Lutherans 580,000 adherents; Anglicans 570,000; Moravians 100,000; Africa Inland Church (AIM) 180,000 Evangelicals 9%. |
| Lutheran | Tanzania | 2,200,000 | - | - | - | 1995 | *LINK* Evangelical Lutheran Church in America web site; web page: "January 25, 1996 News Releases " (viewed 9 July 1999). Story: "More than 60 Million Lutherans Worldwide " [96-01-003-FI] | List: "Countries with more than 1/2 million Lutherans " |
| Lutheran | Tennessee | 30,541 | 0.63% | 107 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. This "Lutheran " figure is an aggregate from organizational adherent statistics from the 12 major American Lutheran religious bodies. |
| Lutheran | Tennessee | - | 1.00% | - | - | 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. |
| Lutheran | Tennessee | - | 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: "Lutheran " |
| Lutheran | Texas | 294,524 | 1.73% | 790 units |
- | 1990 | Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990. | By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. This "Lutheran " figure is an aggregate from organizational adherent statistics from the 12 major American Lutheran religious bodies. |
| Lutheran | Texas | - | 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. |
| Lutheran | Texas | - | 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: "Lutheran " |
| Lutheran | Texas: Dallas-Fort Worth | 70,200 | 1.80% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 112. | Table 3-6: "Religious Profiles of Selected Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total area pop: 3.9 million. |
| Lutheran | Texas: Houston | 114,700 | 3.10% | - | - | 1990 | Kosmin, B. & S. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society; Harmony Books: New York (1993); pg. 112. | Table 3-6: "Religious Profiles of Selected Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total area pop: 3.7 million. |
| Lutheran | USA | 160 | - | - | - | 1623 | Beck, Vector E. Why I Am a Lutheran. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons (1956); pg. 20. | "The earliest Lutheran settlers in America were from the Netherlands, forty families locating in the neighborhood of Albany in 1623, and about two hundred persons coming to Manhattan Island in 1625. " |
| Lutheran | USA | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1623 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (9th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1990); pg. 138. | "...the first European Lutherans to remain permanently in this country arrived at Manhattan Island from Holland in 1623. " |
| Lutheran | USA | 360 | - | - | - | 1625 | Beck, Vector E. Why I Am a Lutheran. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons (1956); pg. 20. | "The earliest Lutheran settlers in America were from the Netherlands, forty families locating in the neighborhood of Albany in 1623, and about two hundred persons coming to Manhattan Island in 1625. " |
| Lutheran | USA | - | - | 1 unit |
- | 1646 | Beck, Vector E. Why I Am a Lutheran. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons (1956); pg. 21. | "...John Campanius... erected in 1646 the first Lutheran Church in America at Tinicum, nine miles southwest of Philadelphia. " |
| Lutheran | USA | - | - | 111 units |
- | 1771 | Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People; Yale University Press: New Haven & London (1973); pg. 259. | "...by 1771 there were eighty-one [Lutheran] congregations in Pennsylvania and adjacent states, plus some thirty more in other parts of America. " |
| Lutheran | USA | - | - | 150 units |
- | 1776 | Finke, Roger & Rodney Stark. The Churching of America, 1776-1990. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (1992; 3rd printing 1997); [Orig. source: Paullin (1932)]; pg. 25. | Table 2.1: "Numbers of Congregations per Denomination, 1776 "; "Includes all synods " |
| Lutheran | USA | - | - | 800 units |
- | 1820 | Gaustad, Edwin S. Church and State in America (series: Religion in American Life). New York: Oxford University Press (1999); pg. 48. | Chart: "Number of Churches [in U.S.A.] in 1820 " |
| Lutheran | USA | 45,000 | - | - | - | 1823 | Spence, Hartzell. The Story of America's Religions; New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1960) [1st printing 1957]; pg. 50. | "By 1823, there were 45,000 Lutherans in America... After 1850, there were 150 different Lutheran synods. " |
| Lutheran | USA | 163,000 | - | - | - | 1850 | Feldman, Egal. Dual Destinies: The Jewish Encounter with Protestant America; Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press (1990); pg. 49. | "The Lutherans... who were about to profit by a surge of German immigration, counted 163,000 members by 1850. " |
| Lutheran | USA | 163,000 | - | - | - | 1850 | Herberg, Will. Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology; Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company (1960); pg. 105. | "By 1850... the Methodists in that year had a membership of 1,324,000. The Baptists came next... the Presbyterians ranked third... the Congregationalists, fourth with 197,000; the Lutherans, fifth with 163,000 " |
| Lutheran | USA | 500,000 | - | - | - | 1870 | Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People; Yale University Press: New Haven & London (1973); pg. 756. | "It is hardly surprising that a communion which numbered a scant half-million in 1870 had almost quintupled by 1910, but which time they were outnumbered only by the Roman Catholics, Methodists, and Baptists. " |
| Lutheran | USA | 400,000 | - | - | - | 1870 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (10th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1995). | page 176; 4th largest Protestant denomination in U.S. in 1870 |
| Lutheran | USA | 400,000 | - | - | - | 1870 | Mead, Frank S. (revised by Samuel S. Hill), Handbook of Denominations in the United States (9th Ed.), Abingdon Press: Nashville, Tenn. (1990); pg. 139. | "By 1870, Lutherans were the fourth largest Protestant group in the country, with approximately 400,000 members. " |
