Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
113 |
21,099 |
49.9 |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
90 |
13,500 |
31.9 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
78 |
32,754 |
77.5 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
44 |
27,686 |
65.5 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
35 |
17,112 |
40.5 |
| Evangelical Congregational Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
26 |
6,820 |
16.1 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
22 |
9,644 |
22.8 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
20 |
38,952 |
92.1 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
17 |
9,681 |
22.9 |
| Churches of God, General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
17 |
3,582 |
8.5 |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
17 |
3,412 |
8.1 |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
10 |
4,725 |
11.2 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
2,971 |
7.0 |
| Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
1,182 |
2.8 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
2,356 |
5.6 |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
935 |
2.2 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
1,496 |
3.5 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
4 |
368 |
0.9 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
1,536 |
3.6 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
392 |
0.9 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
551 |
1.3 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
1,700 |
4.0 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
3 |
2,100 |
5.0 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
639 |
1.5 |
| United Christian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
169 |
0.4 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
421 |
1.0 |
| Old Order River Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
176 |
0.4 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
2 |
871 |
2.1 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
107 |
0.3 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
707 |
1.7 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
360 |
0.9 |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
1,781 |
4.2 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of the United Brethren in Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
43 |
0.1 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
44 |
0.1 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
75 |
0.2 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
1 |
674 |
1.6 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| American Association of Lutheran Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
42 |
0.1 |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
21 |
0.1 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
57 |
0.1 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
120 |
0.3 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
2,466 |
5.8 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 589 |
213,327 |
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The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 422,822. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (213,327) include 50.5% 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.
