Bergen County, New Jersey
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
77 |
455,930 |
552.4 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
54 |
85,000 |
103.0 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
39 |
13,420 |
16.3 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
36 |
12,596 |
15.3 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
34 |
10,499 |
12.7 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
32 |
11,246 |
13.6 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
29 |
9,976 |
12.1 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
18 |
2,265 |
2.7 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
16 |
3,198 |
3.9 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
12 |
2,645 |
3.2 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
5,857 |
7.1 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
8,270 |
10.0 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
967 |
1.2 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
3,037 |
3.7 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
959 |
1.2 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
676 |
0.8 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
479 |
0.6 |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
4 |
1,123 |
1.4 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
4 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
842 |
1.0 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
3 |
769 |
0.9 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
212 |
0.3 |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
2 |
7,700 |
9.3 |
| Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
398 |
0.5 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
60 |
0.1 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
170 |
0.2 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
61 |
0.1 |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
1 |
9,000 |
10.9 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
95 |
0.1 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
32 |
0.0 |
| Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
136 |
0.2 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
67 |
0.1 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
90 |
0.1 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
84 |
0.1 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
47 |
0.1 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
425 |
0.5 |
| Netherlands Reformed Congregations |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
753 |
0.9 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
97 |
0.1 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
9,207 |
11.2 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 447 |
658,388 |
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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.
