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	1,573	8,480,658	435.7
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	324	0.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	132	192,352	9.9
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	169	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	4	195	0.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	392	90,676	4.7
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	95	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,753	0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	14	0.0
Bible Church of Christ, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	7,423	0.4
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	634,061	32.6
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	2	49	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	86	0.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	106	14,340	0.7
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	70	8,751	0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	52	3,621	0.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	29	7,775	0.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	41	3,236	0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	146	17,029	0.9
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	4	211	0.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	46	2,543	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	364	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,532	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	86	10,149	0.5
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	71	0.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	84	11,613	0.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	85	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	541	0.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	266	0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	49	6,970	0.4
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	1	3	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,132	0.1
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	15	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	30	30,920	1.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	13	10,100	0.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	5	174	0.0
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	187	0.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	167	68,707	3.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	24	1,453	0.1
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	121	0.0
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	2	964	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	9	750	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	230	0.0
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	23	2,059	0.1
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	17	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	515	0.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	62	5,367	0.3
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	3	173	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	226	63,033	3.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	127	23,376	1.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,603	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	495	0.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	458	225,239	11.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	52	11,373	0.6
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	4	2,209	0.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	651	263,519	13.5
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	5	1,744	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	404	163,896	8.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	42	3,991	0.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	5	2,531	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	12	4,378	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	13	2,695	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	571	196,353	10.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	242	79,366	4.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	236	93,728	4.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	700	263,866	13.6
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	15	3,719	0.2
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	120	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	3	22,000	1.1
Byelorussion Council Of Orthodox Churches In North America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	76	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	5	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	47	n.a.	n.a.
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	5	9,300	0.5
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	5	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	104	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	68	23,234	1.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1,635	2,211,455	113.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	55	12,983	0.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	9,133	13,307,135

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 19,462,450. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (13,307,135) include 68.4% 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.