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Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

61,574 110,373 14,189 491,652 131,849 707,913
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 8 8,791 5.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 64 26,350 15.6
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 1 1,200 0.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 11 1,917 1.1
Catholic Church Catholic 150 598,322 354.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 5 338 0.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 7 775 0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 6 757 0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 6 2,388 1.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 7 331 0.2
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 161 0.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 215 0.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 462 0.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 5 714 0.4
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 155 0.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 71 30,668 18.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 46 0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 63 30,325 18.0
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 7 1,545 0.9
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 20 5,586 3.3
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 400 0.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 7 1,647 1.0
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 2 393 0.2
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 350 0.2
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 3 223 0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 75 23,861 14.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 268 0.2
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 2 250 0.2
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 9 864 0.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 7 3,836 2.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 10 3,449 2.0
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 12 1,876 1.1
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox 1 476 0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 878 0.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 24 5,019 3.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 89 26,403 15.6
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 200 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 698 781,499  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,688,210. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (781,499) include 46.3% 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.