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Kings County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

86,054 102,191 11,217 912,509 440,365 912,990
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
Catholic Church Catholic 127 702,298 314.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 44 52,618 23.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 37 11,492 5.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 36 22,492 10.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 31 6,537 2.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 30 12,812 5.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 26 6,725 3.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 24 6,066 2.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 23 9,270 4.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 22 9,004 4.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 17 1,385 0.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 12 1,373 0.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 9 1,480 0.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 8 2,354 1.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 8 2,670 1.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 7 1,533 0.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 7 864 0.4
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 6 870 0.4
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 6 2,875 1.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 5 1,589 0.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 491 0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 4 396 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 625 0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 3 870 0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 2 369 0.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 200 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 296 0.1
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 135 0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 1 423 0.2
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 112 0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 140 0.1
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 1 180 0.1
Reformed Episcopal Church Evangelical Protestant 1 33 0.0
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 1 669 0.3
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 1 33 0.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 514 861,318  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 2,230,936. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (861,318) include 38.6% 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.