Montgomery County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,389	9,008		24,285	245	14,781
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	1	34	0.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	381	7.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	15	23,870	446.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	878	16.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	3,224	60.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	2.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	89	1.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,417	26.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	15	3,449	64.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	101	1.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	109	2.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	12	3,163	59.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	66	36,940

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 53,439. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (36,940) include 69.1% 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.