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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-6	-1.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	+3,667	17.8%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-64	-40.3%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	-4	-6.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	-186	-67.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-134	-29.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+77	2.5%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	-572	-79.2%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-13	-44.8%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-16	-10.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-235	-31.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+163	6.9%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	+6	4.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-993	-33.8%
	Totals:	-5	+1,690	+5.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 51,981; in 2000 it was 49,708. The total population changed -4.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (32,585) represent 62.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (34,927) include 70.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 14 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 14 groups had 32,151 adherents in 1990 and 33,841 adherents in 2000, for a change of 5.3%

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 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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