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