Pittsburgh, PA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

117,884	380,532	26,513	988,490	54,971	790,305
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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	10,293	4.3
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	13	259	0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	88	24,422	10.2
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	10	2,003	0.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	52	14,890	6.2
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	265	0.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	358	0.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	41,852	17.5
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	7	618	0.3
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	119	0.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	472	1,067,252	445.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	60	10,279	4.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,149	0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	29	9,896	4.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	56	11,973	5.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	63	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	12	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,288	1.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,435	0.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	10	434	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	13	3,982	1.7
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	26	3,519	1.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	40	4,616	1.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	30	2,420	1.0
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	18	3,190	1.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	8	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	61	20,239	8.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,562	0.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	216	88,675	37.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	791	0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	37	2,579	1.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	318	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	13	n.a.	n.a.
Hutterian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	450	0.2
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	4,800	2.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	8	4,575	1.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	183	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	427	0.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	57	45,485	19.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	42	0.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	39	9,780	4.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	5	622	0.3
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	7	664	0.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	631	0.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	25	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	398	140,613	58.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	21	4,432	1.9
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	10	679	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	22	1,889	0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,107	0.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	20	3,905	1.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	7	1,279	0.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	54	12,420	5.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	374	131,106	54.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,694	0.7
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	306	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,453	1,699,897

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,394,811. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,699,897) include 71.0% 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.