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Washington County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,732 38,861 1,621 71,268 1,545 80,870
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 41 60,917 297.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 158 0.8
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 1,305 6.4
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 117 0.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 1,588 7.8
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 1 77 0.4
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 1 38 0.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 649 3.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 10 2,096 10.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 63 0.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 30 0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 296 1.5
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 2 86 0.4
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 36 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 9 944 4.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 591 2.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 70 0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 2 281 1.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 35 0.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 91 0.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 72 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 116 0.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 3 893 4.4
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 245 1.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 13 2,890 14.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 10 4,371 21.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 6 1,883 9.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 10 3,610 17.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 64 17,651 86.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 54 13,322 65.1
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Orthodox 1 132 0.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 5 n.a. n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 690 3.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 4,105 20.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 275 119,473  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 204,584. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (119,473) include 58.4% 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.