Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

18,024	161,651	7,860	199,389	12,295	238,739
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	85	199,389	312.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	123	72,774	114.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	100	49,060	76.9
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	43	13,413	21.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	17	11,206	17.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	8	8,500	13.3
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	16	7,429	11.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	17	5,627	8.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	3,750	5.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	3,045	4.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,780	4.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	1,951	3.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	8	1,882	3.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,853	2.9
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	3	1,524	2.4
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,500	2.4
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	2	1,500	2.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,174	1.8
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	2	1,158	1.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,070	1.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	5	970	1.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	905	1.4
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	829	1.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	828	1.3
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	3	623	1.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	560	0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	563	0.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	505	0.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	329	0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	290	0.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	276	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	246	0.4
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	242	0.4
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	205	0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	196	0.3
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	152	0.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	136	0.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	4	129	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	128	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	108	0.2
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	99	0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	103	0.2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	63	0.1
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	55	0.1
Mennonite; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	0.1
Jain	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Sikh	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Hindu	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Buddhism	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	547	399,219
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		449,560

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 595,081; in 2000 it was 637,958. The total population changed 7.2%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (399,219) include 62.6% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (449,560) include 70.5% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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