Queens County, New York

Denominational Groups, 2000

41,437	60,757	29,387	644,066	297,046	1,156,686
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^†
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	179	321,200	164.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	107	731,454	374.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	38	9,666	5.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	34	5,739	2.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	33	14,311	7.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	33	13,741	7.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	27	10,275	5.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	25	4,989	2.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	23	6,256	3.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	23	7,846	4.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	20	5,199	2.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	19	4,567	2.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	15	2,845	1.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,069	0.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,492	0.8
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,368	0.7
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	9	n.a.	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	556	0.3
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	6	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	6	638	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	5	1,315	0.7
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	299	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	495	0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	240	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	7,247	3.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	637	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	132	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	220	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	156	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	279	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,000	0.5
Byelorussion Council Of Orthodox Churches In North America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	3,000	1.5
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	355	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	47	0.0
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	280	0.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	125	0.1
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	288	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	130	0.1
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	83,171	42.6
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	703	1,242,861

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,951,598. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,242,861) include 63.7% 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.