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	% Change
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+928	103.9%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+80	6.1%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+54	19.2%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+37	40.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+198	1.5%
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-168	-5.8%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	0	+75	56.8%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+72	61.5%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-20	-26.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-74	-25.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+12	14.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-614	-32.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+5	7.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-266	-7.4%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-11	-31.4%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+99	137.5%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+96	39.2%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-68	-10.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,133	-25.9%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	-1	-63	-9.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+283	30.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-40	-6.8%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-2	-3,205	-78.1%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	-2	n.a.	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-49	-42.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-1,295	-61.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-2,883	-16.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-10	+10,351	17.0%
	Totals:	-21	+2,401	+2.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 204,584; in 2000 it was 202,897. The total population changed -0.8%. The adherent totals for 1990 (119,473) represent 58.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (122,027) include 60.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 29 groups had 117,571 adherents in 1990 and 119,972 adherents in 2000, for a change of 2.0%

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 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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