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Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,659 60,636 4,896 269,585 24,552 179,536
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 684 1.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 22 6,065 10.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 1 100 0.2
Catholic Church Catholic 55 258,353 465.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 71 0.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 180 0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 123 0.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 118 0.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 139 0.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 54 0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 103 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 1,054 1.9
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 139 0.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 590 1.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 177 0.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 384 0.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 29 18,075 32.6
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 1 132 0.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 23 12,958 23.4
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 14 2,826 5.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 7 1,909 3.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 820 1.5
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 44 0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 28 19,203 34.6
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 4 556 1.0
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 2 358 0.7
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 673 1.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 417 0.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 37 0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 287 0.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 936 1.7
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 59 27,315 49.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 283 354,880  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 555,007. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (354,880) include 63.9% 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.