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Metro Area Membership Report
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-NJ-DE-MD CMSA
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 |
Adherence Rate† |
| Advent Christian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
33 |
0.0 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
25 |
14,067 |
2.4 |
| American Association of Lutheran Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
37 |
0.0 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
219 |
68,810 |
11.7 |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
2 |
441 |
0.1 |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
36 |
0.0 |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
1 |
7,500 |
1.3 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
120 |
27,574 |
4.7 |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
1,020 |
0.2 |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
48 |
0.0 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
227,343 |
38.6 |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
66 |
0.0 |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
587 |
0.1 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
539 |
1,914,568 |
324.9 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
34 |
3,439 |
0.6 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
25 |
2,784 |
0.5 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
8 |
950 |
0.2 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
697 |
0.1 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
108 |
0.0 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
31 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
22 |
4,321 |
0.7 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
39 |
3,904 |
0.7 |
| Church of God (Seventh Day) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
23 |
0.0 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
22 |
869 |
0.2 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
28 |
9,952 |
1.7 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
21 |
2,824 |
0.5 |
| Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
212 |
0.0 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
40 |
7,621 |
1.3 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
48 |
4,655 |
0.8 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
27 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
268 |
0.1 |
| Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
349 |
0.1 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
266 |
106,193 |
18.0 |
| Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
282 |
0.1 |
| Evangelical Congregational Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
943 |
0.2 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
1,363 |
0.2 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
249 |
149,475 |
25.4 |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
420 |
0.1 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
30 |
0.0 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
88 |
13,240 |
2.3 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
12 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
32 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
13,600 |
2.3 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
26 |
14,690 |
2.5 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
385 |
0.1 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
161 |
306,835 |
52.1 |
| Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
546 |
0.1 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
25 |
7,529 |
1.3 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
92 |
15,578 |
2.6 |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
11 |
0.0 |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
5 |
1,284 |
0.2 |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
206 |
0.0 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
1,002 |
0.2 |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
436 |
0.1 |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
750 |
0.1 |
| Old Regular Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
61 |
0.0 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese |
Orthodox |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
10 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
287 |
120,658 |
20.5 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
53 |
11,202 |
1.9 |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
818 |
0.1 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
9 |
4,011 |
0.7 |
| Reformed Episcopal Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
18 |
1,228 |
0.2 |
| Regular Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
168 |
0.0 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
18 |
1,694 |
0.3 |
| Schwenkfelder Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
3,031 |
0.5 |
| Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
506 |
0.1 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
66 |
12,665 |
2.2 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
53 |
17,053 |
2.9 |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
1 |
500 |
0.1 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
17 |
4,442 |
0.8 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
108 |
39,260 |
6.7 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
584 |
197,829 |
33.6 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
16 |
2,084 |
0.4 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
379 |
0.1 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 3,558 |
3,357,493 |
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The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 5,892,937. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,357,493) include 57.0% 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.
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