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