Christianity is the largest and most popular religion in the United States, with around 78% of those polled identifying themselves as Christian, as of 2009.This is down from 86% in 1990, and slightly lower than 78.6% in 2001. About 62% of those polled claim to be members of a church congregation. With 243,186,000 Christians, the United States has the largest Christian population on earth.
Protestant denominations accounted for 51.3%, while Roman Catholicism, at 23.9%, was the largest individual denomination. The study categorizes white evangelicals, 26.3% of the population, as the country's largest religious cohort another study estimates evangelicals of all races at 30–35%.
Christianity was introduced to the Americas as it was first colonized by Europeans beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. Today most Christian churches are Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, or Roman Catholic.
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