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Niagara County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

17,533 25,481 1,166 78,534 956 96,176
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 1 667 2.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 10 2,839 12.5
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 1 47 0.2
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 1,355 6.0
Catholic Church Catholic 35 85,328 375.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 525 2.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 150 0.7
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 725 3.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 270 1.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 106 0.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 464 2.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 429 1.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 286 1.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 11 5,716 25.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 14 6,271 27.6
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 7 1,935 8.5
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 33 0.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 310 1.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 20 12,186 53.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 14 7,011 30.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 1,249 5.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 4 207 0.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 3 384 1.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 153 0.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 8 3,106 13.7
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 24 9,970 43.9
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 181 141,722  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 227,354. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (141,722) include 62.3% 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.