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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+10	+26,890	39.1%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	0	-27	-6.1%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	0	+38	105.6%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	-6,450	-86.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+23	+5,649	20.5%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+66	6.5%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+141	293.8%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-18.2%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+693	118.1%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-17	+191,158	10.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+1,782	51.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-523	-55.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+273	39.2%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+160	148.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+509	11.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+1,262	32.3%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+169	19.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+6	+3,034	30.5%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-172	-6.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+394	5.2%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-166	-3.6%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,081	403.4%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-11	-3.2%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-18,159	-17.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,220	89.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-8	-16,242	-10.9%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-37	-8.8%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+5	-1,073	-8.1%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-9,600	-70.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+10,147	69.1%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+287	74.5%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-20	-20,885	-6.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-1,398	-18.6%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-1,121	-7.2%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-325	-25.3%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-132	-64.1%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-757	-75.5%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+953	218.6%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+448	59.7%
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-14,864	-12.3%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+3,498	31.2%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-454	-55.5%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-1,036	-25.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+5,387	318.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-1,698	-13.4%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+93	+22,762	133.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+142	3.2%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-9	-4,052	-10.3%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-24	-21,084	-10.7%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,031	49.5%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-4	-1.1%
	Totals:	+104	+158,892	+5.1%

The population of these 14 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 5,892,937; in 2000 it was 6,188,463. The total population changed 5.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (3,357,493) represent 57.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (3,398,419) include 54.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 51 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 51 groups had 3,105,688 adherents in 1990 and 3,264,580 adherents in 2000, for a change of 5.1%

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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