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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	137	49,597	66.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	114	219,173	295.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	51	11,592	15.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	51	13,125	17.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	36	9,727	13.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	22	3,586	4.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	19	3,450	4.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	15	8,808	11.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	14	9,175	12.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,718	3.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,638	3.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,537	2.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	759	1.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	7	420	0.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,143	1.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	7	2,014	2.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,404	1.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	548	0.7
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	5	n.a.	n.a.
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,079	1.5
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,375	1.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	509	0.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	4	448	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	942	1.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	944	1.3
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	299	0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	349	0.5
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	282	0.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,550	2.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,550	2.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	132	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	40	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	134	0.2
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	450	0.6
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.1
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	44	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	16	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	159	0.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	8,508	11.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	594	360,496

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 742,177. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (360,496) include 48.6% 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.