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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +9 +3,687 34.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean) Evangelical Protestant 0 -4 -7.0%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 +615 273.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +36 +5,626 168.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 -141 0.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +16 +2,865 1016.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +1 +106 73.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +79 42.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -5 -7.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 -887 -58.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -7 +1,237 220.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +5 +386 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +16 +6,048 696.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +20 +1,242 247.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 +381 87.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +2 +364 36.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -4,361 -25.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -47 -48.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -4 -7,290 -47.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +4 +62 n.a.
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -1 -29 -32.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +8 +16,959 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +195 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +122 +222,345 1420.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -5,557 -61.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant +1 +243 n.a.
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -593 -60.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese Orthodox +1 +400 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +3 +580 n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +2 +567 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +9 +309 5.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,113 n.a.
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant +27 +4,114 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +100 11.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +13 +6,512 144.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +29 +1,127 55.0%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 0 -65 -59.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -111 -55.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +5 -299 -8.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 +533 5.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,185 n.a.
  Totals: +336 259,591 +34.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,891,325; in 2000 it was 2,229,379. The total population changed 14.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (758,877) represent 40.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,072,693) include 48.1% 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 750,090 adherents in 1980 and 1,009,681 adherents in 2000, for a change of 34.6%

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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