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Rochester, NY MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

44,645 120,168 6,117 357,461 34,302 535,508
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 3 1,421 1.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 76 24,537 23.8
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 38 0.0
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 24 4,337 4.2
Catholic Church Catholic 137 305,392 296.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 7 717 0.7
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 505 0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 5 549 0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 174 0.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 3 864 0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 609 0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 8 436 0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 8 2,965 2.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 1,517 1.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 8 1,488 1.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 524 0.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 47 20,790 20.2
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 236 0.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 30 17,410 16.9
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 14 4,935 4.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 4 572 0.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 118 0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 29 0.0
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 8 5,891 5.7
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 184 0.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 20 10,571 10.3
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 332 0.3
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 258 0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 90 39,982 38.8
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 13 3,945 3.8
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 5 1,298 1.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 7 1,591 1.5
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 7 861 0.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 1,099 1.1
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 35 10,375 10.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 115 41,119 39.9
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant n.a. 40 0.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 706 507,709  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,030,630. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (507,709) include 49.3% 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.