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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-2	+1,335	26.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+264	39.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-6	+28,798	12.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1	0.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+32	17.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-13	-28.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-28	-15.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	-1	-197	-19.4%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+66	48.2%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-283	-49.9%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2	0.6%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	-3,511	-22.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-2,322	-24.1%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+2	-252	-10.8%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+3,140	570.9%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	-21,016	-57.2%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-264	-33.2%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-3	-0.7%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-132	-64.1%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+3	-3,717	-20.1%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+610	76.4%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+376	229.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+159	44.9%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+253	107.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-34	-9.4%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-72	-11.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-5	-4,223	-19.9%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+168	81.2%
	Totals:	+3	-863	-.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 547,651; in 2000 it was 550,864. The total population changed 0.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (374,013) represent 68.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (371,328) include 67.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 29 groups had 358,187 adherents in 1990 and 357,324 adherents in 2000, for a change of -.2%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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