Bradford County, Pennsylvania Church Records

List of Churches and Church Parishes in Bradford 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 – ($), free to members of the society, List of Churches Included; Also available at Ancestry ($)


 * The Bradford County Historical Society genealogical library and research center has a collection of church records that can be used onsite. They are creating a list of those and it will be added to the site when it is complete.
 * The Tri-Counties Genealogy & History website has a number of Bradford, Chemung, and Tioga county church links connecting users to histories and records of those churches.

Baptists
Baptists were among the earliest settlers in Bradford County. Several Baptist missionaries toured the region at the start of the 19th century, and a large group of Baptist migrants from Pittsford, Vermont, founded the Burlington (now Troy) Baptist Church in 1808. They were organized under the Chemung (County, New York) Baptist Association.

Catholic Church
The Catholic church took hold in the early 1820s when there was a large influx into the area.

Lutheran Church
The Lutheran congregations were established by Germans in the mid-1800s.

Methodist Church
The Methodist Episcopal church, though not a large group, had an early presence in the county.

Presbyterian Church
Many of the Presbyterians began as Congregationalist in the late 1700s.