Bedford County, Pennsylvania Church Records

List of Churches and Church Parishes in Bedford County

 * FamilySearch Places

Databases with Several Denominations

 * 1620-1991 (*) at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images


 * 1708-1985 Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 at Historical Society of Pennsylvania – ($), free to members of the society, List of Churches Included; Also available at Ancestry ($)

Catholic Church

 * 1817 The first Catholic church was built in 1817 and is still standing.


 * 100 years of the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese 1843 -1943. Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, 17:1. FamilySearch Catalog, 974.8 B2wg. Contains chronology, map, county-by-county information.

Lutheran Church

 * 1770 The first protestant church in the county was built in 1770 by Lutherans and Reformeds, though the first services were held in 1758 in the fort. The church built in Schellsburg in 1806 is the oldest one in the county.
 * 1819-1868 Trinity Lutheran Church records 1819-1868 transcripts at Internet Archive, for Bedford County, Pennsylvania.

Quaker (Society of Friends)

 * 1793 In 1793 the Quakers built a church on Dunning Creek.
 * 1800s -1900s Pennsylvania Quaker Records: Warrington, York County, Little Brittain, Lancaster County, Centre, Centre County, West Branch, Clearfield County, Dunnings Creek, Bedford County n.p. Digital version at Ancestry ($).