Churches List A Directory of American Churches
State statistics · updated June 2026

How many churches are in Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania has 17,007 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 1,642 cities and towns. 465 listings are verified, 16,464 include a phone number, and 4,280 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 15,134 congregations of 245 religious bodies in Pennsylvania, with 6,097,173 reported adherents across 67 counties. 54 Pennsylvania church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 47 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

17,007
Directory listings
15,134
2020 Census congregations
6,097,173
2020 Census adherents
54
NRHP churches
PA capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Pennsylvania (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Catholic Church 1,250 2,845,841
Non-denominational Christian Churches 1,823 661,832
United Methodist Church 1,986 448,894
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 1,100 357,938
Muslim Estimate 112 149,561
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 839 143,051
American Baptist Churches in the USA 397 126,222
United Church of Christ 566 123,598
Assemblies of God 428 110,026
Jehovah's Witnesses 337 83,140
Amish Groups, undifferentiated 572 72,609
Episcopal Church 320 67,048
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. 86 64,844
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 110 52,290
Christian and Missionary Alliance 235 46,052
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Largest traditions in the Pennsylvania directory

Tradition Listings
Catholic 1,792
Methodist 1,778
Baptist Churches 1,672
Non-Denominational 1,282
Lutheran 1,241
Brethren 1,209
United Methodist 986
United Church of Christ 892
Presbyterian 872
Evangelical 613
African Methodist Episcopal 525
Episcopal 408
Church of God 393
Bible 324
Church of Christ 235
Where the churches are

Pennsylvania cities with the most listings

Pennsylvania counties

Sources and method

Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for Pennsylvania (PA) as of June 2026. Congregations and adherents come from the 2020 US Religion Census, a county-level enumeration reported by religious bodies and aggregated here to the state; its methodology differs from a directory count and the two will not match. Historic-register counts join National Register of Historic Places listings to directory churches. Statistics for other states: Texas · California · North Carolina · Ohio · Florida · Illinois · Georgia · New York · Michigan · Tennessee. See also the national statistics page, the Pennsylvania directory, and dataset licensing.