Monroe County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

32,002	67,797	5,645	262,624	31,025	336,250
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	78	233,718	327.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,338	1.9
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	14	4,520	6.3
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	17,414	24.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	322	0.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	338	0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	103	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	744	1.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	6	411	0.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,412	2.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,518	2.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,624	2.3
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,425	2.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,770	3.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	193	0.3
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	14	8,459	11.9
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	400	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	276	0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,769	2.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	6	554	0.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	992	1.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	58	0.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	31	15,938	22.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	188	0.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	22	10,395	14.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	19	12,210	17.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	172	0.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	161	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	34	18,015	25.2
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	1,259	1.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	17	7,330	10.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	33	15,521	21.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	7	2,641	3.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	14	16,382	23.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	1,253	1.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	376	382,171

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 713,968. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (382,171) include 53.5% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†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.