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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 +396 12.4%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 +6 6.3%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 -6,900 -76.7%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +8 +1,620 71.5%
Catholic Church Catholic +5 +22,805 5.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +7 +828 390.6%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -20 -0.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -1 -1.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +2 +72 107.5%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +24 75.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 -268 -23.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 +427 89.1%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +5 2.9%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +1 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -2,834 -21.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +153 18.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 -2,741 -24.4%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -23 -27.4%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +75 17.6%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +12 -1,300 -1.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 -1,379 -23.5%
Netherlands Reformed Congregations Evangelical Protestant 0 -119 -15.8%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +5 -1,347 -12.8%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +12 12.4%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -5 -3,465 -27.5%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +159 265.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -2 -494 -51.1%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +5 -22 -2.3%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox +2 -4,450 -57.8%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -116 -15.1%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -587 -22.2%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +6 +81 0.8%
  Totals: +48 +597 +.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 825,380; in 2000 it was 884,118. The total population changed 7.1%. The adherent totals for 1990 (658,388) represent 79.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (664,191) include 75.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 31 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 31 groups had 639,564 adherents in 1990 and 640,161 adherents in 2000, for a change of .1%

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 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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