Southern Baptist is largest denomination in 82 NC counties The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church is the only other denomination with more than 100,000 adherents in North Carolina. The United Methodist Church has the second largest number of adherents statewide (659,000), followed by non-denominational Christian (565,000), Catholic (393,000), and Presbyterian (186,000). The largest concentration of adherents-more than 1.5 million-are members of the Southern Baptist Convention, representing a third of all religious adherents in the state. Nearly half of the North Carolina’s population (48% or 4.5 million) are adherents to some religion. Nationally, non-denominational Christians (12.2 million) are the third largest grouping of adherents, followed by United Methodists (9.9 million) and Mormons (6.1 million). It has a strong regional presence: more than three-quarters of Southern Baptists live in the South according to a 2007 Pew Foundation survey. Among these, the Southern Baptist Convention is the second largest religious group in the United States with 20 million adherents. While Protestantism as a group has more than 77 million adherents, it is comprised of dozens of individual denominations. Nationwide, the largest denominational affiliation is Catholicism, with an estimated 59 million adherents. population (49% or nearly 151 million persons) are adherents to some religion. Religion Census, conducted in 2010, about half of the U.S.
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