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Centre County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

9,285 25,383 143 21,240 2,058 77,649
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 3 1,245 10.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 965 7.8
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 132 1.1
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 634 5.1
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 3 168 1.4
Catholic Church Catholic 7 12,216 98.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 7 899 7.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 992 8.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 228 1.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 453 3.7
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 502 4.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 261 2.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 195 1.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 1,208 9.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 185 1.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 19 6,783 54.8
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 3 142 1.2
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 330 2.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 350 2.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 550 4.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 53 0.4
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 2 102 0.8
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 7 1,050 8.5
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 9 3,009 24.3
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 71 0.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 70 0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 244 2.0
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 17 3,272 26.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 54 12,661 102.3
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 140 1.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 165 49,110  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 123,786. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (49,110) include 39.7% 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.