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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	+6	+466,575	5.5%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-9	-4.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+127	+13,866	15.3%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,759	100.3%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+16	114.3%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-43	-87.8%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-51	-59.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+37	+8,940	62.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2,129	58.8%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-649	-8.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-480	-14.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+60	+13,183	77.4%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+2,260	88.9%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+175	48.1%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+50	+4,092	40.3%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-1,579	-13.6%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+18	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+18	3.3%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+2,437	35.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+95	84.8%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+993	87.7%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-17	-5,520	-17.9%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-1,075	-10.6%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+1,480	850.6%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+132	231.6%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+747	399.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-6,223	-9.1%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+159	10.9%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+449	371.1%
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	0	-151	-15.7%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-388	-51.7%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+796	346.1%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+16	+2,954	143.5%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	+44	258.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+13,298	247.8%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+39	+7,472	11.9%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+64	+2,039	8.7%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+3,431	214.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-11	-2.2%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-7,463	-3.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-22	-6,099	-53.6%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,107	-50.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-9	-29,202	-11.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-8	-18,921	-11.5%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,049	-26.3%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	-1	-1,039	-23.7%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+2	-83	-3.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-6	-27,300	-13.9%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	-11,590	-14.6%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	-12,965	-13.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-7	-35,256	-13.4%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	0	+998	26.8%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	+640	533.3%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	-17,660	-80.3%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	-2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	-4	n.a.	n.a.
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	+1	-5,700	-61.3%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	+16	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+76	+21,120	90.9%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-402	-183,255	-8.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	-238	-1.8%
	Totals:	+97	+197,191	+1.6%

The population of these 29 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 19,462,450; in 2000 it was 21,104,292. The total population changed 8.4%. The adherent totals for 1990 (13,307,135) represent 68.4% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (13,175,497) include 62.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 57 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 57 groups had 12,455,893 adherents in 1990 and 12,653,084 adherents in 2000, for a change of 1.6%

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 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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