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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	145	537,699	339.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	108,785	68.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	72	106,303	67.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	67	24,450	15.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	80	23,426	14.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	58	22,564	14.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	72	22,471	14.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	70	16,159	10.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	10,900	6.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	8,791	5.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	18	7,847	5.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	7,500	4.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	5,611	3.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	23	4,373	2.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	9	3,627	2.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	9	3,626	2.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,157	2.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,025	1.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	9	1,672	1.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,036	0.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,021	0.6
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	14	930	0.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	923	0.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	914	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	840	0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	811	0.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	674	0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	5	613	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	543	0.3
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	500	0.3
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	450	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	9	404	0.3
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	359	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	357	0.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	337	0.2
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	268	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	268	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	112	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	108	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	106	0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	96	0.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.0
Schwenkfelder Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	5	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	812	932,721

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,585,577. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (932,721) include 58.8% 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.