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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
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +28 54.9%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +49 36.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +54 20.6%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 +46 8.5%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 +7 2.0%
General Six Principle Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -1 -1.3%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -3 -74 -1.3%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 0 -2 -2.7%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -55 -10.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -66 -11.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -6 -13.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -20 -21.3%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -12 -28.6%
Catholic Church Catholic -6 -2,425 -31.7%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -2 -236 -87.4%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox -1 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: -11 -2,713 -16.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 40,380; in 2000 it was 42,238. The total population changed 4.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (16,392) represent 40.6% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 16 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 16 groups had 16,210 adherents in 1990 and 13,497 adherents in 2000, for a change of -16.7%

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 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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