{"id":70215,"date":"2018-04-15T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70215"},"modified":"2018-04-15T07:04:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T11:04:01","slug":"barna-denominational-distribution-the-most-catholic-and-protestant-cities-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70215","title":{"rendered":"(Barna) Denominational Distribution: The Most Catholic and Protestant Cities in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year marked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barna.com\/research\/500-years-reformation\/\">500 years<\/a>\u00a0since the Protestant Reformation, but it\u2019s not hard to see that the\u00a0impact of the most significant Church split in history is still felt today. For instance, the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0195103181\/\">World Christian Encyclopedia<\/a><\/em>\u00a0estimates that over 30,000 Christian denominations exist worldwide. Churches of all stripes practice their own flavor of ministry in cities across the United States, all based on particular interpretations of scripture and style. But what is the denominational makeup of each city in America? What are the most Catholic cities? Which areas have the greatest percentages of Baptist, or Lutheran or Pentecostal residents?<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Barna has been tracking denominational\u00a0affiliation and publishing this data in our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barna.com\/product\/cities-2017-individual-city-reports-a-m\/\">cities reports<\/a>. In the infographic below, we list the top five cities for each of the main denominational categories and a few of the largest Protestant\u00a0ones (specific denominational definitions below).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barna.com\/research\/denominational-distribution\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year marked\u00a0500 years\u00a0since the Protestant Reformation, but it\u2019s not hard to see that the\u00a0impact of the most significant Church split in history is still felt today. For instance, the\u00a0World Christian Encyclopedia\u00a0estimates that over 30,000 Christian denominations exist worldwide. Churches<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70215\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,108,109,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture","category-sociology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70217,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70215\/revisions\/70217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}