Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA MSA
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
% Change |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
+1 |
+150 |
8.3% |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
0 |
+8 |
1.3% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-279 |
-9.1% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
-2 |
+45,134 |
29.3% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-73 |
-18.2% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-11 |
-7.5% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-10 |
-15.4% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+152 |
345.5% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+4 |
+680 |
56.6% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-27 |
-11.6% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-253 |
-20.7% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-123 |
-30.8% |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
+2 |
-932 |
-14.2% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+673 |
57.0% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-2 |
-10,915 |
-13.0% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+166 |
207.5% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-14 |
-9.9% |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-195 |
-27.9% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+103 |
n.a. |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
-1 |
+80 |
1.0% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+157 |
21.0% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-4 |
-210 |
-16.4% |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-815 |
-9.9% |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-520 |
-4.4% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+40 |
58.8% |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-14 |
-18.7% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+826 |
237.4% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-145 |
-20.5% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
-112 |
-46.5% |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
0 |
-88 |
-23.3% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-6 |
-6,988 |
-12.5% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-3 |
-325 |
-2.4% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+775 |
34.1% |
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Totals:
-1
| +26,895 |
+7.5% |
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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 adherent totals for 1990 (369,437) represent 62.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (399,219) include 62.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 33 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 33 groups had 360,086 adherents in 1990 and 386,981 adherents in 2000, for a change of 7.5%
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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