Pennsylvania

Denominational Groups, 2000

706,904	2,131,472	81,864	3,802,524	393,584	5,164,706
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2,663	786,153	66.3
Catholic Church	Catholic	1,855	3,881,444	327.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1,437	766,707	64.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1,161	479,057	40.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	825	301,917	25.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	462	128,906	10.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	415	168,001	14.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	291	55,974	4.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	234	31,335	2.6
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	225	63,497	5.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	157	29,609	2.5
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	133	20,870	1.8
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	133	30,365	2.6
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	132	22,233	1.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	122	29,487	2.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	120	9,404	0.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	116	54,336	4.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	114	14,381	1.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	89	8,673	0.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	87	26,411	2.2
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	86	11,322	1.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	86	23,232	2.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	81	41,816	3.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	80	16,900	1.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	80	12,931	1.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	73	17,812	1.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	71	18,828	1.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	59	7,821	0.7
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	50	27,190	2.3
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	48	7,961	0.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	45	6,797	0.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	45	4,070	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	35	5,073	0.4
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	26	12,410	1.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	20	2,633	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	19	3,413	0.3
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,466	0.2
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,201	0.2
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,903	0.2
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,375	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,152	0.1
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,066	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,869	0.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,174	0.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	676	0.1
United Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	788	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,721	0.2
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	4,336	0.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	453	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	385	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	4	750	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	689	0.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	3	171	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	374	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	144	0.0
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	2	955	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	2	51	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	231	0.0
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	49	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	132	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	212	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	1,200	0.1
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	476	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	11,872	7,156,968

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 11,863,895. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (7,156,968) include 60.3% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.