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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	4,381	5.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	34	6,960	8.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	600	0.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,058	2.4
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	205	0.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	607	0.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	200	0.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	7,680	8.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	138	324,752	377.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,843	2.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	90	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	124	0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	122	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	199	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	7	2,383	2.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	4	579	0.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	453	0.5
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	3	64	0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	708	0.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	43	13,242	15.4
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	57	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	90	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	41	16,681	19.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	82	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	5	321	0.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,520	1.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,405	1.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	21	17,879	20.8
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	78	0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	11	5,046	5.9
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.0
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	46	11,510	13.4
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	821	1.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	65	19,578	22.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	440	0.5
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	126	0.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	782	0.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	435	0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	1,208	1.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	14	1,732	2.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	121	42,127	48.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,007	1.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	156	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	680	490,594

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 861,424. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (490,594) include 57.0% 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.