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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 9 8,270 10.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 16 3,198 3.9
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 1 95 0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 1 9,000 10.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 18 2,265 2.7
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 9,207 11.2
Catholic Church Catholic 77 455,930 552.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 212 0.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 5 676 0.8
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 6 3,037 3.7
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 6 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 61 0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 67 0.1
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 32 0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,123 1.4
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 2 398 0.5
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 479 0.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 170 0.2
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 39 13,420 16.3
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant 1 136 0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 4 842 1.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 32 11,246 13.6
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 84 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 4 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 4 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 425 0.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 1 90 0.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 54 85,000 103.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 12 5,857 7.1
Netherlands Reformed Congregations Evangelical Protestant 1 753 0.9
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 34 10,499 12.7
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 97 0.1
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 36 12,596 15.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 60 0.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 7 967 1.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 5 959 1.2
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox 2 7,700 9.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 769 0.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 12 2,645 3.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 29 9,976 12.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 447 658,388  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 825,380. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (658,388) include 79.8% 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.