Reading, PA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

14,779	101,914	1,146	80,542	3,116	172,141
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
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+201	139.6%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+269	140.1%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+844	43.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+686	98.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+51	7.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-63	-8.9%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+375	88.2%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-77	-14.8%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+25,660	46.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	16.1%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	0	+15	14.3%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	0.8%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-650	-27.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+140	60.9%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+171	322.6%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-72	-27.1%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-883	-38.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-82	-35.7%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-52	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-18	-6.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-2,007	-3.7%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	-600	-21.4%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-149	-9.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-1	-537	-6.1%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-182	-70.8%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-11	-7.8%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-654	-19.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-270	-61.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-6	-5,231	-12.5%
	Totals:	-10	+16,892	+9.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 336,523; in 2000 it was 373,638. The total population changed 11.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (187,867) represent 55.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (201,497) include 53.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 29 groups had 181,590 adherents in 1990 and 198,482 adherents in 2000, for a change of 9.3%

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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