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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
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 38 13,230 169.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 36 6,814 87.1
Catholic Church Catholic 24 12,997 166.2
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 23 5,279 67.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 18 3,903 49.9
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 9 1,247 15.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 7 816 10.4
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant 6 527 6.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 467 6.0
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 5 750 9.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 5 796 10.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 1,391 17.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 864 11.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 3 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 546 7.0
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 3 579 7.4
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 2 538 6.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 87 1.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 179 2.3
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 228 2.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 30 0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 114 1.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 145 1.9
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 193 2.5
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
International Pentecostal Church of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 24 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 2 0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 38 0.5
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 139 1.8
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 211 51,923  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 78,218. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (51,923) include 66.4% 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.