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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 26 40,538 266.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 44 11,855 78.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 22 11,066 72.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 31 9,931 65.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 10 2,625 17.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 2,276 15.0
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 2,119 13.9
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 4 1,316 8.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 1,273 8.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 1,263 8.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 1,092 7.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 5 798 5.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 629 4.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 558 3.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 428 2.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 370 2.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 333 2.2
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 295 1.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 285 1.9
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 4 177 1.2
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 4 176 1.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 158 1.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 140 0.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 121 0.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 120 0.8
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 3 71 0.5
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 1 41 0.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 10 0.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 195 90,064  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 152,013. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (90,064) include 59.2% 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.