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	% Change
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+189	n.a.
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-3	+480	2.0%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	+12	+3,125	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+17	+7,370	73.0%
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+148	n.a.
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+132	34.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-163	-29.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-97	-173,717	-15.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+6,047	64.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	-1,762	-18.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-3,867	-29.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-3,334	-63.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+828	84.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+450	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+3	+1,234	32.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-1,552	-32.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-1,554	-24.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+16	1.0%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+19	+3,325	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+573	63.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+847	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+2	-3,754	-16.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+6	5.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,868	713.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-25	-22,652	-22.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+760	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-7	-4,698	-64.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-267	-86.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+12	+8,646	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+6,578	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+4,500	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+93	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+451	120.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+14	+28,811	245.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-2,525	-22.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	-1	-884	-64.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-429	-60.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+23	+2,634	n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+64	17.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-47	-72,686	-38.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+1,975	71.0%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-543	-47.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-3,355	-34.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+351	18.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+1,664	45.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+198	22.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-14	-9,204	-55.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-23	-33,288	-21.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-80	-60.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+2,399	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-59	-19.0%
	Totals:	-38	-254,611	-14.2%

The population of these 6 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 2,571,223; in 2000 it was 2,358,695. The total population changed -1.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (1,810,318) represent 70.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,568,390) include 66.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 51 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 51 groups had 1,798,090 adherents in 1980 and 1,543,479 adherents in 2000, for a change of -14.2%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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