Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,632	7,429	64	5,214	263	27,636
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
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+91	99.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+72	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+64	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+55	21.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+30	n.a.
General Six Principle Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+25	n.a.
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+22	7.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-9	-11.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-24.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-33	-30.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-66	-66.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-1	-73	-14.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-6	-101	-2.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-1	-321	-35.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-513	-51.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-5	-3,679	-41.0%
	Totals:	-10	-4,448	-24.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 37,876; in 2000 it was 42,238. The total population changed 4.6%. The adherent totals for 1980 (18,116) represent 47.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (14,602) include 34.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 16 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 16 groups had 17,934 adherents in 1980 and 13,486 adherents in 2000, for a change of -24.8%

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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