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Syracuse, NY MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

27,391 88,122 3,587 214,304 15,958 382,755
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 104 239,393 331.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 137 55,420 76.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 41 19,308 26.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 53 15,543 21.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 54 12,555 17.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 17 8,913 12.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 24 5,121 7.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 17 3,700 5.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 5 3,104 4.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 5 2,081 2.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 5 1,473 2.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 7 1,440 2.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 4 1,375 1.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 9 1,325 1.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,168 1.6
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 1,075 1.5
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 6 945 1.3
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 7 895 1.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 4 892 1.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 6 780 1.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 6 581 0.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 572 0.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 494 0.7
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 363 0.5
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 4 318 0.4
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 181 0.3
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 3 163 0.2
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 124 0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 109 0.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 103 0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 67 0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 1 58 0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 57 0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 1 32 0.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 546 379,728  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 722,865. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (379,728) include 52.5% 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.