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Bedford County, Pennsylvania - County Membership Report (2010)

Exact definitions of "congregations" and "adherents" vary by religious body. Congregations may be parishes, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, or another site where a religious body has regularly scheduled worship services. Adherents generally are members, children who are not members, and others who are not members but are considered participants in the congregation.

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Religious Bodies Tradition Family Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 35 4,901 98.49
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 19 3,588 72.10
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant Friends/Brethren Family 19 3,304 66.40
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant Lutheran Family 15 2,499 50.22
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 3 1,780 35.77
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant Congregationalists (United Church of Christ) Family 11 1,706 34.28
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 5 1,188 23.87
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 8 1,039 20.88
Churches of God, General Conference Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 5 467 9.38
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 2 423 8.50
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) Family 1 235 4.72
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 2 190 3.82
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 2 159 3.20
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 1 143 2.87
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist Family 1 131 2.63
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 2 116 2.33
Christian and Missionary Alliance Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 102 2.05
Brethren Church (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant Friends/Brethren Family 1 96 1.93
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 1 71 1.43
Friends General Conference and Friends United Meeting, dually aligned meetings Mainline Protestant Friends/Brethren Family 1 63 1.27
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference of the United States and Canada Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 1 60 1.21
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 1 48 0.96
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA Orthodox Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox) Family 1 30 0.60
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Black Protestant Methodist Family 1 24 0.48
Baha'i Faith Other Other Groups Family 0 5 0.10
Brethren in Christ Church Evangelical Protestant Friends/Brethren Family 6
Grace Gospel Fellowship Evangelical Protestant Independent Fundamentalist Family 1
Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches Mainline Protestant Friends/Brethren Family 8
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 2
           

Religious Traditions (1980 - 2020), Percent of Population


The population of this county was 49,762 in 2010. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (22,368) included 44.9% of the total population in 2010. The adherence rate is the number of adherents of a given group per 1,000 people in the general population.

Note that data collection methods for religious bodies change over time, affecting the comparability of statistics. For further information, see the U.S. Religion Census website at https://www.usreligioncensus.org/.

The 2020 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include data for 372 religious bodies or groups. Of these, the ASARB was able to gather data on congregations and adherents for 217 and on congregations only for 155.

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