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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	54	61,722	26.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	43	13,768	6.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	120	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	130,263	56.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	125	807,100	350.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	753	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,115	0.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	23	6,434	2.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	582	0.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	8	515	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	23	3,771	1.6
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	107	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	10	693	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	1,941	0.8
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	208	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	327	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,307	1.0
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	701	0.3
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	47	0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	35	20,143	8.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	425	0.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	38	9,030	3.9
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	3	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	238	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	286	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	5	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,250	1.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	3,000	1.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	526	418,900	182.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,965	0.9
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	7	374	0.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	121	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	945	0.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	4	1,148	0.5
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	26	4,963	2.2
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	12	1,550	0.7
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	6	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	770	0.3
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	36	19,545	8.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,404	1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	578	0.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	10	1,384	0.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	31	14,513	6.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	320	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,147	1,539,500

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 2,300,664. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,539,500) include 66.9% 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.