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Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

9,047 18,287 1,103 32,724 605 32,877
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
Catholic Church Catholic 16 35,518 369.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 38 13,276 137.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 19 5,152 53.5
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 13 1,950 20.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 1,679 17.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 1,221 12.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 9 1,098 11.4
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 1,050 10.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 1,034 10.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 701 7.3
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 559 5.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 3 509 5.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 474 4.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 429 4.5
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 400 4.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 335 3.5
Church of the United Brethren in Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 303 3.2
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 270 2.8
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 251 2.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 233 2.4
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 4 209 2.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 200 2.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 195 2.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 183 1.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 141 1.5
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 2 100 1.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 80 0.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 64 0.7
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 1 52 0.5
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 2 50 0.5
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 1 48 0.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 2 46 0.5
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 43 0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 24 0.3
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 159 67,877  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 96,246. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (67,877) include 70.5% 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.