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	0.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	348	6.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	360	6.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	13	20,618	396.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	159	3.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	1.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	276	5.3
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	15	0.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	2	458	8.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	3,136	60.3
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	722	13.9
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.6
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	2.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	757	14.6
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	14	2,371	45.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	25	0.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	123	2.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	13	2,937	56.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	69	32,585

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 51,981. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (32,585) include 62.7% 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.