Montour County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,015	5,379		3,397		8,445
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	1	2,948	166.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	78	4.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	456	25.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	133	7.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	114	6.4
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	351	19.8
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	450	25.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	94	5.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	125	7.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	271	15.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	2,139	120.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	716	40.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	4	1,618	91.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	4	1,169	65.9
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	36	10,662

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 17,735. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (10,662) include 60.1% 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.