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NEW YORK, Mar. 31 Church 5 50,0 m - ers m membership increased 51.5. . per ), 00, Co bined, these groups ac- ed Lutheran Church in. America

cent while the nation's population: count for about=97 per cent of to- fourth with 738,229. “ increased only an estimated 30 tal ;fhurch fnemBership in the Kleven protestant groups. surper cent between 1926 and 1949,/U. 8. the report said. veyed reported 1,000,000 or moie the National Council of Churches Protest: int groups, adding 16,- membership. Of these five averreported today. 5 954,322 new members for a 56 per The council said “American cent growth, showed the largest) church membership -is at an all- percentage gain. But the Roman Southern Baptist Convention, the

time high, not only in terms of Catholic Church, which increased Natiopal Baptist Convention,! actual members but in proportion hy 9,005.305 for a 48.4 per cent USA, INC., the Missouri” Synod, to the population.” “rise, showed the largest single in- the U nited Lutheran Church in A council survey for the 14-year grease ‘n. membership among the Amértea and- the African Methodperiod showed that total member- three major faiths. ist Episcopal Church.

&hip- of religious bodies, including ~ jewish congregations increased The remaining six averaged a number of eastern “orthodox py 918758 members for a 2205 below-average growth rate of 24.7

churches: rose from 53,203,413 in percent rise.+ per cent? the Presbyterian C hurch 1926 to, 80,682,575, or more than Apjong the protestant denomi- USA, the Northern Baptist Con54 per cent of the total popula- nations, the Southern Baptists vention, the C ongregational Christion, in 1949. made the largest increase with tian Churches,:the Methodist 54 Groups Tabulated 113.236,887. Methodists were sec- Church, the Protestant Epicopal The council said its survey tab- ond with 2,031,927, the National Church, and the Disciples of 4 ulated membership of H4 religious Baptist Canvention USA, Inc, Christ. i

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