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Franklin County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

16,331 24,344 106 8,551 1,123 78,858
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 1 311 2.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 149 1.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 11 2,169 17.9
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 74 0.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 535 4.4
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 1 66 0.6
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 12 2,391 19.8
Catholic Church Catholic 7 7,163 59.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 2 220 1.8
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 412 3.4
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 5 875 7.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 1,043 8.6
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 11 2,725 22.5
Church of the United Brethren in Christ Evangelical Protestant 19 5,767 47.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 44 0.4
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 6 865 7.1
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant 2 191 1.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 568 4.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 2 86 0.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 21 7,738 63.9
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 33 0.3
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 4,075 33.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 90 0.7
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 470 3.9
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 16 2,216 18.3
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 5 750 6.2
Old Order River Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 266 2.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 3,124 25.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 55 0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 331 2.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 4 818 6.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 14 4,407 36.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 37 10,589 87.5
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 240 2.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 211 60,881  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 121,082. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (60,881) include 50.3% 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.