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St. Lawrence County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,145 11,374   35,061 1,045 60,306
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
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 38 6,663 59.5
Catholic Church Catholic 35 43,000 384.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 19 3,231 28.9
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 11 936 8.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 9 1,806 16.1
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 9 973 8.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 8 1,278 11.4
Old Order Amish Church Evangelical Protestant 4 600 5.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 302 2.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 4 539 4.8
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 390 3.5
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 219 2.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 91 0.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 123 1.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 2 109 1.0
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 68 0.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 18 0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 53 0.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 321 2.9
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 136 1.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 62 0.6
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 66 0.6
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 121 1.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 363 3.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 269 2.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 166 61,776  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 111,974. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (61,776) include 55.2% 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.