Clarion County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,467	9,768		6,962	127	21,441
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^†
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	3	67	1.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	3	652	15.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	280	6.7
Catholic Church	Catholic	9	8,871	212.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	144	3.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	5	644	15.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	22	0.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	129	3.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	80	1.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	5	471	11.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	1.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	40	1.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,023	24.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	1,966	47.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	78	1.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	14	2,349	56.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	7	798	19.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	34	5,434	130.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	182	4.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	109	23,305

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 41,699. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (23,305) include 55.9% 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.