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	131	491,652	324.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	84	43,989	29.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	79	18,650	12.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	68	15,102	10.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	66	19,411	12.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	60	10,309	6.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	49	15,462	10.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	44	86,600	57.1
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	26	42,397	27.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	24	3,674	2.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	20	4,696	3.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,396	2.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	15	4,190	2.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,249	0.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,849	1.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	4,355	2.9
Buddhism	Other Theology	11	n.a.	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	712	0.5
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	9	4,361	2.9
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,048	0.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	389	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	7	357	0.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	6	520	0.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	8,034	5.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,277	0.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	665	0.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	4	167	0.1
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the	Orthodox	4	900	0.6
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	387	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,828	1.2
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	369	0.2
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	236	0.2
Hindu	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	147	0.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,800	1.9
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	1,401	0.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	726	0.5
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	2,343	1.5
Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	71	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	2	750	0.5
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	2	2,100	1.4
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	233	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	149	0.1
Mennonite; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	2	24	0.0
Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	2	800	0.5
Jain	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	144	0.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	95	0.1
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	298	0.2
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	4,200	2.8
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	1,050	0.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	141	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	52	0.0
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	300	0.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	122	0.1
Macedonian Orthodox Church: American Diocese	Orthodox	1	200	0.1
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,310	0.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	250	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis	Orthodox	1	145	0.1
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	286	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	125	0.1
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	875	809,637
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		1,311,810

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,585,577; in 2000 it was 1,517,550. The total population changed -4.3%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (809,637) include 53.4% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (1,311,810) include 86.4% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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