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Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

29,774 122,417 3,727 263,375 60,807 269,997
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 34 12,225 19.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 10 1,132 1.8
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 3 393 0.6
Catholic Church Catholic 61 209,341 325.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 264 0.4
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 350 0.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 519 0.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 90 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,274 2.0
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 9 1,753 2.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 1,618 2.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 294 0.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 531 0.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 36 21,777 33.8
Evangelical Congregational Church, The Evangelical Protestant 8 1,341 2.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 50 51,002 79.2
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 168 0.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 11 2,662 4.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 16 13,326 20.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 489 0.8
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 3 640 1.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 32 26,991 41.9
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 6 1,443 2.2
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 3 310 0.5
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 585 0.9
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 2 380 0.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 618 1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 7 900 1.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 3 654 1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 2 80 0.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 37 19,805 30.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 34 18,454 28.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 65 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 399 391,474  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 643,621. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (391,474) include 60.8% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.