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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 +7 +5,137 10.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +26 +9,063 139.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +6 +803 n.a.
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +210,211 30.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,049 214.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -13 -4,433 -73.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +9 +596 1528.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -761 -50.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +12 +3,538 256.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +11 +1,066 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +4 +2,455 393.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant +1 +271 242.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +10 +42 2.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +602 301.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant +1 +47 n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +3 +28 3.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -3 -7,140 -32.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -135 n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +450 114.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -4,243 -37.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +3 -113 -31.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -233 -79.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +4 +6,309 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +6 +20,400 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +350 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +234 +369,996 4109.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -1,169 -50.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +288 n.a.
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant +1 -192 -29.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -607 -38.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +3 +580 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -3,357 -50.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant +13 +1,732 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +985 34.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +25 +13,003 140.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +12 +2,320 169.0%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 0 +570 317.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -482 -55.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -768 -52.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +2 +9 0.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,579 n.a.
  Totals: 392 +629,846 +73.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 2,230,936; in 2000 it was 2,465,326. The total population changed 7.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (861,318) represent 38.6% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 41 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 41 groups had 859,819 adherents in 1980 and 1,489,665 adherents in 2000, for a change of 73.3%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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