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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	-5	-1,312	-8.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+180	26.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+27	13.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-295	-50.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+428	65.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-423	-34.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-109	-14.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-1,306	-22.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-66	-10.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-25	-22.0%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+721	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+37	25.0%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+56	12.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-104	-54.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+32	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-18	-12.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-6	-2,932	-20.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-132	-21.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	-814	-21.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-498	-7.0%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	+2	+416	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+3	+102	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+131	262.0%
	Totals:	-1	-5,904	-11.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 81,243; in 2000 it was 80,023. The total population changed 2.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (53,839) represent 66.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (49,534) include 61.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 23 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 23 groups had 53,810 adherents in 1980 and 47,906 adherents in 2000, for a change of -11.0%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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