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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 % Change
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +1,735 708.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +2 +1,500 n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +596 1104.0%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox +2 +416 n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +375 75.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +2 +351 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +283 47.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +245 52.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +185 n.a.
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 +170 50.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +144 42.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +133 134.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +3 +104 9.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +81 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +65 9.0%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant +3 +40 n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +23 36.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +13 21.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +6 0.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -59 -22.0%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -70 -53.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -78 -42.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -115 -31.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 -120 -14.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -152 -39.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -3 -959 -48.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -1,019 -60.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -3 -2,258 -22.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -3,478 -25.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -5 -7,201 -42.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -6 -11,370 -15.0%
  Totals: 0 -20,414 -15.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 204,441; in 2000 it was 181,412. The total population changed -2.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (130,200) represent 63.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (112,857) include 62.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 31 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 31 groups had 129,656 adherents in 1980 and 109,242 adherents in 2000, for a change of -15.7%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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