Madison County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,600	11,243		12,638	155	43,805
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	% Change
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+101	144.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+28	51.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+188	7.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+6	1.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-6	-3.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	-2,688	-18.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-1,562	-23.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-81	-24.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-74	-30.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-738	-32.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-198	-50.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,459	-61.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+150	n.a.
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+130	n.a.
	Totals:	-5	-6,203	-19.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 65,150; in 2000 it was 69,441. The total population changed 0.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (31,726) represent 48.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (25,636) include 36.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 14 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 14 groups had 31,317 adherents in 1980 and 25,114 adherents in 2000, for a change of -19.8%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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