Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
40 |
25,856 |
47.8 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
40 |
195,996 |
362.2 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
31 |
16,362 |
30.2 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
23 |
9,348 |
17.3 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
21 |
4,921 |
9.1 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
18 |
6,313 |
11.7 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
18 |
12,770 |
23.6 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
12 |
1,893 |
3.5 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
10 |
36,283 |
67.0 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
540 |
1.0 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
7 |
1,280 |
2.4 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
7 |
3,297 |
6.1 |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
612 |
1.1 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
521 |
1.0 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
167 |
0.3 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
380 |
0.7 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
3 |
1,192 |
2.2 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
3 |
235 |
0.4 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
1,463 |
2.7 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
273 |
0.5 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
153 |
0.3 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
273 |
0.5 |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
205 |
0.4 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
291 |
0.5 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
1,900 |
3.5 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
278 |
0.5 |
| Reformed Episcopal Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
136 |
0.3 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
418 |
0.8 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
144 |
0.3 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
45 |
0.1 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
44 |
0.1 |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
168 |
0.3 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
52 |
0.1 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
95 |
0.2 |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
66 |
0.1 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
0 |
0.0 |
| Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
209 |
0.4 |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
1 |
120 |
0.2 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
179 |
0.3 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
78 |
0.1 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
600 |
1.1 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
3,718 |
6.9 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 305 |
328,874 |
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The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 541,174. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (328,874) include 60.8% 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.
