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

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.