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Beaver County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,105 31,209 4,652 64,413 2,478 68,555
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
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 41 12,168 65.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 32 12,061 64.8
Catholic Church Catholic 29 66,810 359.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 23 8,646 46.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 10 1,418 7.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 7 1,522 8.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 7 833 4.5
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 7 660 3.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 6 953 5.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 5 753 4.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 688 3.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 340 1.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 3 334 1.8
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 3 51 0.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 3,933 21.1
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 2 221 1.2
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 248 1.3
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 265 1.4
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 559 3.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 87 0.5
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 1 263 1.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 49 0.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 94 0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 398 2.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 83 0.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 445 2.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 475 2.6
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 1 74 0.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 325 1.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 544 2.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 243 1.3
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 2,481 13.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 207 118,024  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 186,093. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (118,024) include 63.4% 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.