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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -3 -3,967 -6.4%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +14 +1,832 13.3%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +4 +683 569.2%
Catholic Church Catholic +2 +105,409 13.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +787 104.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -12 -4,801 -74.6%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 +53 9.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -2 +257 49.9%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,152 30.5%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +373 53.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +4 +1,139 58.7%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant +1 +175 84.1%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +6 +405 17.6%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +101 14.4%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +3 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -2 -4,791 -23.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +421 99.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -1,781 -19.7%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +18 7.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -223 -78.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox -1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +17,150 527.7%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 -2,650 -88.3%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -270 -39,900 -9.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -780 -39.7%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -1 -31 -8.3%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +167 138.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -468 -49.5%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +1 -166 -14.5%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -1,595 -32.1%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +182 11.7%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +3,090 401.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +12 +2,728 14.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,289 53.6%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -190 -32.9%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -672 -48.6%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +1 -1,692 -11.7%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,259 393.4%
  Totals: -223 +74,963 +5.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 2,300,664; in 2000 it was 2,465,326. The total population changed 7.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (1,539,500) represent 66.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,552,336) include 63.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 37 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 37 groups had 1,406,514 adherents in 1990 and 1,481,477 adherents in 2000, for a change of 5.3%

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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