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Onondaga County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

17,216 54,837 3,428 147,332 14,201 221,322
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 -2 -1,560 -20.8%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 +15 17.6%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 -380 -84.4%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +1 -91 -3.8%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 -11,851 -7.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -245 -18.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +66 46.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +404 84.7%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -13 -9.7%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -1 -190 -52.3%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +36 53.7%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +361 37.5%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -22 -3.6%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +32 8.5%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -1 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -537 -7.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 +299 3.9%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -1 +120 74.5%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -112 -64.4%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,650 106.5%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 -25 -1.6%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 -28 -63.6%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -6 +2,604 40.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -66 -13.8%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -12 -50.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -1,106 -15.3%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -120 -18.6%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +505 261.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +257 28.2%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -1 -374 -27.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -135 -16.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -266 -14.6%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -3,306 -12.2%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -486 -30.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -26 -45.6%
  Totals: -2 -14,602 -6.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 468,973; in 2000 it was 458,336. The total population changed -2.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (250,156) represent 53.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (237,014) include 51.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 34 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 34 groups had 240,906 adherents in 1990 and 226,304 adherents in 2000, for a change of -6.1%

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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