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Evangelical Protestant (%) Mainline Protestant (%) Historically Black Protestant (%) Catholic (%) Latter-day Saint (%) Other (%) None (%) Dallas: 82 78 38 14 7 15 1 4 18 Atlanta: 80 76 33 12 18 11 1 3 20 Houston: 80 73 30 11 9 19 1 4 20 Miami: 79 68 20 11 8 27 <1 10 21 Chicago: 78 71 16 11 8 34 <1 7 22 Minneapolis: 77 70 15 27 4 21 1 5 23 ...
Protestant Christian faiths are well represented in Atlanta as the city is located in the Bible Belt, [3] the city historically being a major center for traditional Southern denominations such as the Southern Baptist Convention, the United Methodist Church, and the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Map of New Ebenezer, founded 1736. The town was established in 1734 [2] by about 150 Salzburger emigrants, Protestant refugees who had been expelled from the Catholic Archbishopric of Salzburg (in present-day Austria) by a 1731 edict of Prince-archbishop Count Leopold Anton von Firmian.
According to a 2020 study by the Association of Religion Data Archives, the largest overall Christian groups were Baptists, non-denominational Protestants, and Catholics; and the largest Christian denominations were the Southern Baptist Convention, the Catholic Church, United Methodist Church, and the National Baptist Convention, USA and ...
The name "Bible Belt" has been applied historically to the South and parts of the Midwest, but is more commonly identified with the South. [6] It encompasses both the Deep South (South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most of Louisiana) and the Upland South (North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas, and Oklahoma).
A few dioceses bear the names of two cities, variously reflecting a shift in the major center of population, e.g., the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston; future plan to divide a diocese, e.g., the former Diocese of Reno-Las Vegas; union of two former dioceses, e.g., the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph; political expedience, e.g., the ...
Other prominent Protestant Christian groups in the region have included Methodists and Pentecostals. The Catholic Church is the largest non-Protestant Christian denomination in Southeast Georgia. During European colonization of the Americas, Spanish Catholics established missions throughout present-day regions of Southeast and Coastal Georgia. [4]
Catholics of the Armenian and Latin churches made up around 0.8% of the population and were mainly found in the south of Georgia and a small number in Tbilisi. Protestants also made up less than 1%. [3] There was also a sizeable Jewish community in Tbilisi served by two synagogues.