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Erie County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

45,692 83,738 4,713 544,252 28,435 243,435
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 10 13,909 13.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 34 11,820 11.6
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 16 4,477 4.4
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 1 132 0.1
Catholic Church Catholic 161 523,531 515.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 497 0.5
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 7 480 0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 7 1,490 1.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 496 0.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 501 0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 4 111 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,056 1.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 2 231 0.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 570 0.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 514 0.5
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 209 0.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 34 17,436 17.2
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 1 337 0.3
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 93 0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 47 24,755 24.4
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 8 2,574 2.5
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 3 247 0.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 7 7,682 7.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 26 13,697 13.5
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 4 737 0.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 43 23,161 22.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 2,170 2.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 1,096 1.1
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 6 1,102 1.1
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 1 165 0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 4 918 0.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 43 16,689 16.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 54 25,442 25.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 553 698,325  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,015,472. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (698,325) include 68.8% 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.