Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-NJ-DE-MD CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

222,039	652,477	32,287	2,105,726	385,890	2,790,044
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	535	1,872,345	331.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	596	210,678	37.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	254	169,030	29.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	297	146,357	25.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	268	132,160	23.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	217	77,227	13.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	104	40,391	7.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	69	31,578	5.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	85	16,661	3.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	85	14,904	2.6
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	20	13,525	2.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	41	12,483	2.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	25	8,907	1.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	39	8,860	1.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	53	8,737	1.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	17	8,271	1.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	21	6,781	1.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	31	6,221	1.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	30	5,331	0.9
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	8	4,571	0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	17	4,137	0.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	37	3,629	0.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	22	3,566	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	15	3,481	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	38	2,827	0.5
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,363	0.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	26	2,340	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	24	2,072	0.4
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,004	0.4
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	5	1,398	0.3
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,341	0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	9	1,243	0.2
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	1,200	0.2
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	8	947	0.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	636	0.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	610	0.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	539	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	524	0.1
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	476	0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	412	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	400	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	2	391	0.1
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	200	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	177	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	168	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	155	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	151	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	139	0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	131	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	124	0.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	117	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	3,083	2,832,937

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 5,649,290. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,832,937) include 50.1% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.