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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 -1 -558 -9.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 +33 49.0%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 +12 21.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +4 -542 -19.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +4 -20,703 -12.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +402 61.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +19 10.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +482 121.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +18 18.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +123 246.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +103 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +561 74.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +171 41.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +136 50.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +2 +150 n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -2 -6,876 -51.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +304 245.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -4 -52 -1.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +23 9.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -110 -64.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +927 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +3,200 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,525 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +16 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +3 +5,995 200.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -83 -17.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +2 +265 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -3,298 -35.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -290 -36.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +3 -542 -44.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +439 60.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 +349 55.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -58 -8.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -876 -36.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -8,552 -26.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,133 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -26 -46.0%
  Totals: 32 -26,180 -10.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 463,920; in 2000 it was 458,336. The total population changed -2.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (255,491) represent 55.1% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 37 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 37 groups had 254,242 adherents in 1980 and 228,062 adherents in 2000, for a change of -10.3%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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