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Butler County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

13,791 35,083 783 52,746 1,297 70,383
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 30 45,474 307.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 49 15,926 107.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 23 11,358 76.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 31 9,914 67.0
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 7 3,006 20.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 1,962 13.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 7 1,642 11.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 928 6.3
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 873 5.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 862 5.8
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 4 591 4.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 529 3.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 492 3.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 409 2.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 319 2.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 313 2.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 242 1.6
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 176 1.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 155 1.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 142 1.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 128 0.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 95 0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 67 0.5
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 1 23 0.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 10 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 180 95,636  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 147,912. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (95,636) include 64.7% 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.