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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 % Change
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +3 -767 -45.0%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant +1 +36 n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 -722 -70.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +150 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +224 n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +400 n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +50 n.a.
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -8 -11.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +820 81.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +151 56.0%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox +1 +207 n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -107 -21.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +137 13.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -190 -48.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -338 -34.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +50 38.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +165 67.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -460 -23.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +12 38.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -94 -37.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -32 -34.0%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -19 -24.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -10 -9.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -478 -41.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -126 -12.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -1 -4,895 -13.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -274 -24.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -411 -81.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 -301 -60.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -5,300 -33.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -2 -1,544 -26.0%
  Totals: 5 -13,674 -18.5%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 107,150; in 2000 it was 94,643. The total population changed -1.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (74,573) represent 69.6% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (61,766) include 65.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 32 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 32 groups had 73,887 adherents in 1980 and 60,213 adherents in 2000, for a change of -18.5%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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