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York County, Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

28,496 99,121 1,788 37,745 4,532 210,069
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 -90 -16.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -1 -593 -16.0%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +147 16.0%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +6,804 22.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 -53 -3.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +80 n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +659 354.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +51 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +1,129 164.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant +1 -1,123 -22.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +872 58.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +66 20.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant +11 +1,890 n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +92 56.0%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +32 n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -857 -39.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +341 696.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -7 -8,763 -18.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +1,500 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +400 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +2,450 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 +193 58.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +1,089 153.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -158 -9.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -125 -66.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -201 -32.0%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +186 n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +60 63.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -1,086 -15.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +4 +580 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -4,457 -72.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +2 +332 105.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +8 +1,827 135.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +177 186.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -7 -4,088 -17.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -4 -4,404 -12.0%
  Totals: 22 -5,041 -2.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 312,963; in 2000 it was 381,751. The total population changed 12.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (177,661) represent 56.8% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (171,682) include 45.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 36 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 36 groups had 174,827 adherents in 1980 and 169,786 adherents in 2000, for a change of -2.9%

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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