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Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

21,136 77,264 4,228 131,608 3,267 132,490
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 82 155,183 395.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 80 33,262 84.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 52 24,789 63.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 51 28,133 71.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 27 8,177 20.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 12 1,225 3.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 11 3,703 9.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 9 2,797 7.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 8 2,806 7.2
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 8 804 2.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 6 2,023 5.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 1,288 3.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 5 375 1.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 5 1,144 2.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 280 0.7
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 4 1,872 4.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,059 2.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 759 1.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 3 651 1.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 340 0.9
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 3 263 0.7
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 3 346 0.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 90 0.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant 2 164 0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 78 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 432 1.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 68 0.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 251 0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 93 0.2
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 263 0.7
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 68 0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 366 0.9
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 115 0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 171 0.4
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 75 0.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 406 273,513  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 392,294. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (273,513) include 69.7% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.