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===Religion=== {{bar box |title=Religion in Pittsburgh (2014)<ref name="PEW">{{cite web |title=Religious Landscape Study |publisher=[[Pew Research Center]] |date=November 3, 2020 |url=https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/metro-area/pittsburgh-metro-area/}}</ref> |float=right |width=285px |titlebar=#ddd |left1=Religion |right1=Percent |bars= {{bar percent|[[Protestantism]]|dodgerblue|42}} {{bar percent|[[Catholic Church|Catholicism]]|#d4213d|32}} {{bar percent|Other [[Christianity|Christian]]|Deepskyblue|3}} {{bar percent|[[Irreligion|No religion]]|grey|18}} {{bar percent|Others|orange|4}} {{bar percent|Don't know|black|1}} }} According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, 78% of the population of the city identified themselves as Christians, with 42% professing attendance at a variety of churches that could be considered [[Protestant]], and 32% professing [[Catholic]] beliefs. while 18% claim no religious affiliation. The same study says that other religions (including Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism) collectively make up about 4% of the population.<ref name="PEW"/> According to a 2010 [[Association of Religion Data Archives]] (ARDA) study, residents include 773,341 "Catholics"; 326,125 "Mainline Protestants"; 174,119 "Evangelical Protestants;" 20,976 "Black Protestants;" and 16,405 "Orthodox Christians," with 996,826 listed as "unclaimed" and 16,405 as "other" in the metro area.<ref name="thearda.com"/> A 2017 study by the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at [[Brandeis University]] estimated the [[History of the Jews in Pittsburgh|Jewish population of Greater Pittsburgh]] was 49,200.<ref>{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=https://www.brandeis.edu/ssri/pdfs/communitystudies/PittsburghJewishCommStudy.pdf |title=The 2017 Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Community Study |access-date=December 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221235539/https://www.brandeis.edu/ssri/pdfs/communitystudies/PittsburghJewishCommStudy.pdf |archive-date=December 21, 2019 |website=Brandeis University }}</ref> Pittsburgh is also cited as the location where the earliest precursor to [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] was founded by [[Charles Taze Russell]]; today the denomination makes up approximately 1% of the population based on data from the [[Pew Research Center]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 15, 2023 |title=Jehovah's Witness {{!}} History, Beliefs & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jehovahs-Witnesses |access-date=October 18, 2023 |website=Britannica |language=en |first=J. Gordon |last=Melton }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Religious Landscape Study |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/ |access-date=October 18, 2023 |website=[[Pew Research Center]]'s Religion & Public Life Project |language=en-US}}</ref>
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