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