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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 +820 62.8%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -1 -760 -9.8%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,075 27.6%
Catholic Church Catholic -5 +14,055 17.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +6 +884 41.6%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +42 9.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +253 234.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -65 -28.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +543 48.2%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant 0 +47 114.6%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +14 16.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +600 29.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant -1 +172 2.6%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +366 40.5%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +31 4.1%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant +2 +501 5.9%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -4 -0.6%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +9 0.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,269 37.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -3 -9,482 -16.5%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +119 87.5%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -3 -595 -22.5%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 -31 -18.6%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +469 6.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +7 2.3%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -8 -724 -35.1%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -139 -32.9%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +13 +766 85.1%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -46 -38.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -2,242 -12.9%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +476 70.4%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,052 266.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +7 0.7%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +6 +881 29.8%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +76 20.8%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -2,592 -12.2%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -10 -6,548 -9.8%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +367 50.3%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -63 -32.0%
  Totals: +8 +1,610 +.5%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 587,986; in 2000 it was 629,401. The total population changed 7.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (325,904) represent 55.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (317,063) include 50.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 39 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 39 groups had 306,256 adherents in 1990 and 307,866 adherents in 2000, for a change of .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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