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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 -2 -95 -4.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +979 16.0%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant +8 +2,597 110.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -5 +21,822 31.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +12 +1,792 147.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +14 3.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +361 n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -555 -77.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +926 124.0%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant +1 +88 n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +2 +99 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +1,028 63.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant +3 -1,528 -18.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 +411 48.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 +182 30.0%
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant +50 +8,934 n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 -32 -15.0%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant +8 +672 n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +459 10.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +3,809 450.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -15,814 -25.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 +114 81.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +1,500 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +4 +2,055 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +63 86.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +4 +5,571 313.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +312 n.a.
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -102 -26.0%
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant +13 +729 78.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +2 +480 n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -83 -43.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +75 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -2,318 -13.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +3 +973 544.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -287 -17.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +173 19.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +8 +1,956 104.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +170 63.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -6 -5,298 -22.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -15 -11,791 -16.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +126 315.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,096 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +85 174.0%
  Totals: +119 +21,748 +7.6%

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 555,158; in 2000 it was 629,401. The total population changed 7.0%. The adherent totals for 1980 (293,815) represent 52.9% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 43 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 43 groups had 287,214 adherents in 1980 and 308,962 adherents in 2000, for a change of 7.6%

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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