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
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	-2,794	-7.9%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-14	-28.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+606	49.6%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-133	-12.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+58	5.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-150	-14.5%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-236	-70.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1	-0.5%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+7	16.3%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-24	-10.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+107	51.2%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+41	89.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-36	-18.5%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-23.1%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-1,012	-51.9%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+140	51.9%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	+13	27.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+339	423.8%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+20	83.3%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	+156	30.6%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-34	-7.9%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-19	-2.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-157	-9.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-2,637	-19.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-768	-14.9%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	-1	+107	107.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+83	58.9%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-2	0	0.0%
	Totals:	-2	-6,350	-9.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 96,246; in 2000 it was 94,643. The total population changed -1.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (67,877) represent 70.5% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 30 groups had 66,290 adherents in 1990 and 59,940 adherents in 2000, for a change of -9.6%

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 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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