A Star Tribune graphic, published in conjunction with coverage of the new pope, presents an overview of the major religious denominations in Minnesota and how they changed between 1990 and 2000. Catholics make up by far the largest single group, though the various Lutheran denominations, when combined, are not far behind–both at about 1.2 million people, each totaling about 25% of Minnesota’s population. My mainline Protestant denomination, the United Methodist Church, is relatively small at 118,000. The Methodist Church showed the largest drop among the major groups–17 percent in 10 years, which does not bode well for its future. I’m uncertain as to why the list does not show other mainline Protestant groups, such as the United Church of Christ and Episcopal churches.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 22nd, 2005 at 6:41 pm and is filed under Minnesota, Religion.