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Albany County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

8,096 24,739 3,181 138,376 13,552 106,621
Evangelical Protestant Mainline Protestant Orthodox Catholic Other Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports


Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
Catholic Church Catholic 44 111,760 390.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 2,723 9.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 384 1.3
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 377 1.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 691 2.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 93 0.3
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 137 0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 6 3,479 12.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 635 2.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 361 1.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 7 1,568 5.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 16 6,487 22.7
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 1 89 0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 8 4,289 15.0
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 106 0.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 16 5,049 17.7
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 23 8,021 28.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 1,284 4.5
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 21 11,313 39.6
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 30 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 485 1.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 4 4,159 14.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 382 1.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 171 163,949  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 285,909. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (163,949) include 57.3% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga County are Episcopalian.