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Metro Area Membership Report
Rochester, 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 |
143 |
329,986 |
310.6 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
111 |
40,003 |
37.7 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
88 |
32,329 |
30.4 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
66 |
23,946 |
22.5 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
44 |
16,228 |
15.3 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
32 |
6,782 |
6.4 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
31 |
9,771 |
9.2 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
27 |
15,301 |
14.4 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
21 |
10,839 |
10.2 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
16 |
2,452 |
2.3 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
16 |
23,300 |
21.9 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
13 |
4,587 |
4.3 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
12 |
3,282 |
3.1 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
3,229 |
3.0 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
1,996 |
1.9 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
10 |
880 |
0.8 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
1,553 |
1.5 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
691 |
0.7 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
482 |
0.5 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
1,670 |
1.6 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
3,070 |
2.9 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
190 |
0.2 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
521 |
0.5 |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
4 |
288 |
0.3 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
3,625 |
3.4 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
1,774 |
1.7 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
403 |
0.4 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
3 |
1,311 |
1.2 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
165 |
0.2 |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
476 |
0.5 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
1,057 |
1.0 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
193 |
0.2 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
338 |
0.3 |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
300 |
0.3 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
70 |
0.1 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
67 |
0.1 |
| Church of the Lutheran Confession |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
60 |
0.1 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
75 |
0.1 |
| Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
161 |
0.2 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
25 |
0.0 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
58 |
0.1 |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
51 |
0.1 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
19,422 |
18.3 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 757 |
563,007 |
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The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,062,470. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (563,007) include 53.0% 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.
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