Denominational Profile

History

	International Pentecostal Holiness Church (1911)	continuedInternational Pentecostal Holiness Church
		split into Congregational Holiness Church (1920) Pentecostal Fire-Baptized Holiness Church (1918)

The Pentecostal Holiness Church and Fire-Baptized Holiness Church merged in 1911 and retained the name Pentecostal Holiness Church. It took the current name in 1975.

Membership Data

Year	Clergy	Churches	Members
1929	282	192	8,096
1935	825	536	15,836
1937	-	594	16,913
1940	-	730	24,100
1942	-	684	22,725
1944	-	714	24,910
1946	-	778	25,780
1950	1,269	932	39,293
1951	1,329	961	41,808
1952	2,061	1,030	43,150
1953	1,452	1,045	43,943
1954	1,512	1,082	44,826
1955	1,581	1,112	46,827
1956	1,610	1,147	47,323
1957	1,657	1,189	47,847
1958	1,698	1,203	49,594
1959	1,754	1,214	51,688
1960	1,760	1,239	53,250
1961	1,753	1,248	55,502
1962	1,768	1,283	57,366
1963	1,787	1,293	58,502
1964	1,814	1,331	60,665
1965	1,846	1,338	63,453
1966	1,953	1,388	65,040
1967	1,953	1,388	67,027
1969	2,997	1,355	66,790
1970	2,546	1,318	66,778
1971	2,422	1,341	72,696
1972	1,878	1,340	74,108
1977	2,899	2,340	86,103
1983	2,168	1,143	108,229
1984	3,422	1,461	113,000
1988	3,314	1,472	116,764
1989	2,095	1,475	119,073
1990	-	-	131,674
1994	3,250	1,645	150,133
1995	2,344	1,653	157,163
1996	1,909	1,658	164,132
1997	1,915	1,681	170,382
1998	1,936	1,716	176,846
1999	2,574	1,771	185,431
2000	2,553	1,868	197,972
2001	2,762	1,911	209,922
2002	2,798	1,905	213,348
2003	2,910	1,964	276,916
2004	4,007	1,964	291,846
2005	3,949	1,990	303,277
2006	4,151	1,965	308,510
2007	4,092	2,010	320,135
2008	4,239	2,024	330,054

Data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Denomination descriptions provided by Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR). [More information on data sources]