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Bergen County, New Jersey

Denominational Groups, 2000

19,368 53,466 20,753 478,735 91,869 219,927
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 7 8,158 9.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 17 4,112 4.9
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 85 0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 1 1,900 2.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 6 1,014 1.2
Catholic Church Catholic 77 451,753 534.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 22 0.0
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 5 575 0.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 6 2,682 3.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 776 0.9
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 2 190 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 381 0.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 156 0.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 398 0.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 41 19,607 23.2
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 1 160 0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 5 322 0.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 31 15,022 17.8
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 195 0.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 34 12,463 14.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 13 7,948 9.4
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 151 0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 30 15,372 18.2
Protestant Reformed Churches in America Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.1
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 38 17,221 20.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 506 0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 3 514 0.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 4 557 0.7
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox 2 9,321 11.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 703 0.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 12 3,633 4.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 29 11,523 13.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 384 587,459  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 845,385. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (587,459) include 69.5% 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.