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Churches in Philadelphia County

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania has 1,213 churches in the Churches List directory, 249 of them verified and 306 with a published website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 1,309 congregations and 692,046 adherents across 116 religious bodies in the county@if ($county->population) — 432 adherents per 1,000 residents of its 1,603,793 people. @endif

1,213
Directory listings
1,309
2020 Census congregations
692,046
2020 Census adherents
1,603,793
Population (2020 Census)
Philadelphia County PA · 2026
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Religious bodies in Philadelphia County (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents Per 1,000 pop.
Catholic Church 95 253,876 158.3
Non-denominational Christian Churches 206 72,094 45.0
Muslim Estimate 41 70,065 43.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA 91 55,216 34.4
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. 45 47,573 29.7
Jehovah's Witnesses 70 18,288 11.4
Southern Baptist Convention 89 17,899 11.2
Church of God in Christ 28 14,026 8.7
African Methodist Episcopal Church 28 10,316 6.4
Episcopal Church 45 9,505 5.9
Orthodox Judaism 12 9,250 5.8
Mahayana Buddhist 5 8,366 5.2

Source: 2020 US Religion Census (Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies). Per-1,000 rates divide reported adherents by the county's 2020 Census population (1,603,793). Largest 12 bodies by adherents shown.

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Historic-register churches in the county

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Notable churches in Philadelphia County

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Calvary Chapel of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA African Methodist Episcopal

4.8 · 722 reviews

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Calvary Chapel of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA Calvary Chapel

4.8 · 722 reviews

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The National Shrine of St. John Neumann

Philadelphia, PA Catholic

4.9 · 351 reviews

The National Shrine of St. John Neumann is a Catholic national shrine dedicated to John Neumann, the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia and the first American male to be canonized.

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Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Philadelphia, PA African Methodist Episcopal

4.6 · 208 reviews

The Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church and congregation which is located at 419 South 6th Street in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA....

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Mt Airy Church of God In Christ

Philadelphia, PA Church of God in Christ

4.6 · 186 reviews

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Resurrection of Our Lord Church

Philadelphia, PA Catholic

4.8 · 176 reviews

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Holy Innocents Church

Philadelphia, PA Catholic

4.8 · 172 reviews

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St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church

Philadelphia, PA Catholic

4.8 · 172 reviews

St. John the Evangelist Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Center City, Philadelphia, within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. From 1838 to 1864 it served as the cat...

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Christian Stronghold Baptist Church

Philadelphia, PA Baptist Churches

4.7 · 171 reviews

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Christ Community Church

Philadelphia, PA African Methodist Episcopal

4.9 · 165 reviews

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St Monica Roman Catholic Church

Philadelphia, PA Catholic

4.9 · 149 reviews

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Beloved St John Evangelistic

Philadelphia, PA African Methodist Episcopal

4.8 · 136 reviews

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Cities and towns in Philadelphia County

Directory traditions here: Baptist Churches (337) · Catholic (134) · Non-Denominational (124) · African Methodist Episcopal (84) · Methodist (54) · Church of God (49) · Lutheran (45) · Episcopal (42) · Presbyterian (40) · Evangelical (36)

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How this county page is assembled

Directory listings are mapped to Philadelphia County through the US Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file: each ZIP Code Tabulation Area is assigned to the county holding the largest share of its land area, so a small number of churches in ZIP codes that straddle county lines may be attributed to a neighboring county. Congregation and adherent counts come from the 2020 US Religion Census and are reported by the religious bodies themselves. Population is the county's April 2020 decennial-census base from the US Census Bureau's population-estimates program; per-1,000 adherence rates divide reported adherents by that figure. Corrections to any listing go through the corrections page.