Somerset County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

12,478	22,118	518	14,239	181	30,489
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	23	15,551	191.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	680	8.4
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	206	2.5
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	2	584	7.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	658	8.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,262	15.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	8	800	9.9
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	25	6,007	73.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	4	695	8.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	115	1.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	146	1.8
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	472	5.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	194	2.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	146	1.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	42	14,579	179.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	634	7.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	17	3,942	48.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	36	7,089	87.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	50	0.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	189	53,839

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 81,243. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (53,839) include 66.3% 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.