Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle, PA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

58,953	150,234	2,982	92,526	12,368	312,338
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	43	78,471	133.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	182	66,805	113.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	108	57,430	97.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	59	21,252	36.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	32	17,385	29.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	9,353	15.9
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	48	8,433	14.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	25	7,785	13.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	7	6,881	11.7
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	27	6,613	11.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	12	4,920	8.4
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	20	4,465	7.6
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	21	3,892	6.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	3,387	5.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,959	5.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,650	4.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,500	4.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,287	3.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,125	3.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	7	2,068	3.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	24	2,062	3.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	7	1,306	2.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,127	1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,064	1.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	7	903	1.5
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	900	1.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	760	1.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	729	1.2
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	676	1.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	5	676	1.2
United Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	601	1.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	425	0.7
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	422	0.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	395	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	365	0.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	305	0.5
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	255	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	4	230	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	197	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	167	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	164	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	136	0.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	121	0.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	108	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	85	0.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	41	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	9	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	778	325,904

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 587,986. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (325,904) include 55.4% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.