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Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

19,213 74,542 1,476 261,542 37,895 202,967
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 179 0.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 5 1,239 2.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 572 1.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 1 117 0.2
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 1 131 0.3
Catholic Church Catholic 39 175,129 365.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 236 0.5
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 4 570 1.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 122 0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 138 0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 174 0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 408 0.9
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 303 0.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 304 0.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 363 0.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 6 1,358 2.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 18 7,823 16.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 39 28,817 60.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 12 1,827 3.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 5 1,625 3.4
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 236 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,817 3.8
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 144 0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 19 13,357 27.9
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 230 0.5
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 2 179 0.4
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 6 3,751 7.8
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 2 171 0.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 906 1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 235 0.5
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 2 297 0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 190 0.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 21 9,061 18.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 32 14,557 30.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 250 266,616  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 479,211. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (266,616) include 55.6% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.