New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

484,982	1,163,295	159,371	8,947,233	2,420,616	7,928,795
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	1,579	7,327,152	389.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	667	345,458	18.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	698	287,271	15.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	573	242,287	12.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	414	215,526	11.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	413	198,287	10.5
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	395	194,138	10.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	127	192,063	10.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	234	103,076	5.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	245	94,154	5.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	171	82,417	4.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	278	50,468	2.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	159	36,594	1.9
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	59	19,663	1.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	90	16,063	0.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	80	14,818	0.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	51	13,545	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	52	12,135	0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	52	11,049	0.6
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	4	10,373	0.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	58	10,281	0.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	29	8,582	0.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	69	8,391	0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	129	7,657	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	35	7,497	0.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	70	7,340	0.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	61	6,070	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	46	5,274	0.3
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	5	4,383	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	38	4,157	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	12	4,003	0.2
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	10	3,783	0.2
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	3	3,425	0.2
Bible Church of Christ, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	3,238	0.2
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	10	2,380	0.1
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,863	0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	26	1,457	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,453	0.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,433	0.1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,085	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	7	960	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	8	947	0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	611	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	608	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	568	0.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	493	0.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	6	398	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	390	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	350	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	257	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	246	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	4	170	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	140	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	131	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	123	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	68	0.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.0
Protestant Reformed Churches in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	7,047	9,566,997

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 18,828,970. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (9,566,997) include 50.8% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.