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County Membership Report
Queens County, New York
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
107 |
731,454 |
374.8 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
7,247 |
3.7 |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
68 |
0.0 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
20 |
5,199 |
2.7 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
83,171 |
42.6 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
13 |
1,492 |
0.8 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
495 |
0.3 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
240 |
0.1 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
52 |
0.0 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
638 |
0.3 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
1,368 |
0.7 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
132 |
0.1 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
13 |
1,069 |
0.6 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
556 |
0.3 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
85 |
0.0 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
29 |
0.0 |
| Independent Fundamental Churches of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
1,000 |
0.5 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
0 |
0.0 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
23 |
6,256 |
3.2 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
130 |
0.1 |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
279 |
0.1 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
637 |
0.3 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
299 |
0.2 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
23 |
7,846 |
4.0 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
19 |
4,567 |
2.3 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
125 |
0.1 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
33 |
14,311 |
7.3 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
220 |
0.1 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
33 |
13,741 |
7.0 |
| Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
355 |
0.2 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
38 |
9,666 |
5.0 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
47 |
0.0 |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
280 |
0.1 |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
288 |
0.2 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
34 |
5,739 |
2.9 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
25 |
4,989 |
2.6 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
15 |
2,845 |
1.5 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
27 |
10,275 |
5.3 |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
1 |
3,000 |
1.5 |
| Byelorussion Council Of Orthodox Churches In North America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
9 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| 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. |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
5 |
1,315 |
0.7 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
179 |
321,200 |
164.6 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
2 |
156 |
0.1 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 703 |
1,242,861 |
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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.
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