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Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

23,913 94,127 5,352 342,121 24,936 385,134
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
Catholic Church Catholic 132 310,403 376.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 125 47,117 57.1
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 68 24,596 29.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 49 13,639 16.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 47 19,988 24.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 39 15,985 19.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 34 8,772 10.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 15 2,074 2.5
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 12 6,379 7.7
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 11 3,158 3.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 11 6,205 7.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 9 1,233 1.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 6 646 0.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 6 4,372 5.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 6 357 0.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 5 1,458 1.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 5 397 0.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,496 1.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 540 0.7
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 588 0.7
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 387 0.5
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 3 609 0.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 84 0.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 1,109 1.3
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 2 86 0.1
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 377 0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 223 0.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 2 280 0.3
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 2 211 0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 1 77 0.1
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 133 0.2
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 30 0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 70 0.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 90 0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 36 0.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 120 0.2
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 1 89 0.1
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 52 0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 190 0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 163 0.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 625 473,866  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 824,729. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (473,866) include 57.5% 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.