Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY MSA
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
199 |
666,747 |
560.6 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
76 |
31,362 |
26.4 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
56 |
27,883 |
23.5 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
53 |
22,120 |
18.6 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
50 |
16,842 |
14.2 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
46 |
17,376 |
14.6 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
45 |
23,649 |
19.9 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
42 |
13,896 |
11.7 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
30 |
12,525 |
10.5 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
21 |
18,525 |
15.6 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
17 |
1,881 |
1.6 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
967 |
0.8 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
14,576 |
12.3 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
887 |
0.8 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
11 |
2,687 |
2.3 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
10 |
1,955 |
1.6 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
9 |
2,255 |
1.9 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
865 |
0.7 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
1,351 |
1.1 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
8 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
879 |
0.7 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
590 |
0.5 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
5 |
1,132 |
1.0 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
531 |
0.5 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
640 |
0.5 |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
858 |
0.7 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
3,900 |
3.3 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
4 |
223 |
0.2 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
443 |
0.4 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
515 |
0.4 |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
313 |
0.3 |
| Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
149 |
0.1 |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
1 |
138 |
0.1 |
| Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
125 |
0.1 |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
1 |
600 |
0.5 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
88 |
0.1 |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
102 |
0.1 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
113 |
0.1 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
100 |
0.1 |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
408 |
0.3 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
66 |
0.1 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
24,610 |
20.7 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 791 |
914,872 |
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The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,189,288. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (914,872) include 76.9% 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.
