Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

53,737	173,417	14,940	632,807	46,004	360,761
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	254	695,911	520.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	171	75,242	56.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	124	54,527	40.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	103	37,002	27.7
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	34,787	26.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	43	26,816	20.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	38	15,167	11.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	41	13,140	9.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	8,722	6.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	29	6,985	5.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	24	6,337	4.7
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	4,800	3.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	25	4,709	3.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	23	3,431	2.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,922	2.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,600	2.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	2,049	1.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,899	1.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,703	1.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,584	1.2
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	5	1,392	1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	5	1,208	0.9
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	8	979	0.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	959	0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	927	0.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	10	858	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	811	0.6
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	6	615	0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	7	507	0.4
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	496	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	5	464	0.4
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	8	473	0.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	436	0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	398	0.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	366	0.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	365	0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	6	317	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	306	0.2
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	265	0.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	241	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	117	0.1
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	105	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	96	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.1
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	60	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	36	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	42	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	9	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	10	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	7	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,088	1,013,336

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,336,449. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,013,336) include 75.8% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.