Wayne County, Pennsylvania Church Records

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


 * Linkpendium


 * Wayne County PA, Churches at Wayne PA GenWeb

Baptist
Baptists arrived in the area in 1795. Eventually there were two groups, the Free Communion Baptist Church at Mount Pleasant and the Honesdale Baptist Church.

Catholic Church
Irish Catholics lived in Mount Pleasant, Preston, Buckingham, Carbondale, Honsdale, Ledgedale, and White Mills townships. Many people were Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. employees. The German Catholic Church was organized 1853.

Episcopal/Anglican Church
Honesdale Grace Episcopal Church and Dyberry Parish in Bethany were both established in1832. St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church in Hamlin was established in 1844.

Jewish
The Temple Beth Israel synagogue was established 1849 from land donated by Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. The Sherith-Israel Synagogue. Russian and Polish Jews 1880's established the Sherith-Isreal synagogue.

Lutheran Church
Honesdale German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation was established in 1845.

Methodist Church
The first group organized in 1825; by 1900 the Methodist outnumbered the other denominations. Members could attend in Salem Corners, Pleasant Mount, and Honesdale.

Presbyterian Church
There were five churches organized between 1829 and 1849.
 * 1829 Hensdale (Dyberry Forks)
 * 1835 Waymart
 * 1842 Prompton
 * 1842 -1900 Prompton Sessions Records Available from the Wayne County Historical Society, Research Library. You may view it at the library for free if a member or for a $5.00 charge.
 * 1848 Lebonon
 * 1849 Hawley

First Presbyterian Church, Honesdale


 * 1708-1985 Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 at Historical Society of Pennsylvania – ($), free to members of the society; Also available at Ancestry ($)
 * Contains the church records of:
 * Honesdale: First Presbyterian Church

Presbyterian Church, Mount Pleasant Township in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch Batch
 * 1841-1875
 * 1841-1888

Presbyterian Church, Prompton in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free. Batch.
 * 1842-1873
 * 1842-1873 Presbyterian Church, Prompton, Marriage Index 1842-1873

Russian Orthodox Russians settled in South Canaan and had a monastery and school.