Utica-Rome, NY MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,312	34,874	1,609	107,351	3,702	142,048
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	% Change
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+560	71.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+525	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+4	+384	81.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+362	46.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+328	33.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+254	60.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+172	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+135	n.a.
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+134	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+102	24.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+35	32.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+35	135.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-32	-3.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-69	-34.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-75	-30.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-123	-77.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-139	-47.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-2	-263	-49.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-307	-7.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-371	-42.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-657	-43.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-7	-1,291	-22.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-4	-1,392	-52.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1,516	-37.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-4,128	-46.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-9	-5,493	-27.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-3	-5,547	-56.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-1	-20,657	-16.0%
	Totals:	-8	-39,034	-20.2%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 320,180; in 2000 it was 299,896. The total population changed -5.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (193,738) represent 60.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (157,848) include 52.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 28 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 28 groups had 192,916 adherents in 1980 and 153,882 adherents in 2000, for a change of -20.2%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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