Franklin County, Pennsylvania Church Records

List of Churches and Church Parishes in Franklin 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
The oldest Roman Catholic congregations are located in the city of Chambersburg.
 * 100 years of the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese 1843 -1943. Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, 17:1. FamilySearch Library book 974.8 B2wg. Contains chronology, map, county-by-county information.

Church of the Brethren
Church Genealogy Records, Church of the Brethren Network

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
After the murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Sydney Rigdon attempted to establish his branch of the Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1845 a group from Pittsburgh traveled to Franklin County and purchased property in Antrim Township. The group, for various reasons, never took hold and by 1847 disbanded.

Ward and Branch Records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints


 * Blue Ridge Dest
 * Fairview (Waynesboro)

Lutheran Church
Germans settled Franklin County,with one of the earliest settlers being Matthias George. Itinerant ministers performed necessary rites in the area.

Evangelical Lutheran Church, Waynesboro


 * 1814-1875  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1844-1880  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sylan (Little Cove)


 * 1834-1875  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1834-1906 Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, 1834-1906 at Ancestry ($).

Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pleasant Hall
 * 1788-1869  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Second Evangelical Lutheran Church, Chambersburg
 * 1835-1875  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Presbyterian Church
The Presbyterians are very numerous in the county and were the earliest denomination in the county.

Falling Spring Presbyterian Church was organized, at a Scotch-Irish settlement in what is now Franklin County, in 1738.

Robert Kennedy Memorial Presbyterian Church, Welsh Run
 * 1836-1917  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Upper West Conococheague Presbyterian Church, Mercersburg


 * 1769-1813  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index
 * 1769-1812  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index

Reformed Church
Salem Reformed Church, Washington Township


 * 1782-1809  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index