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
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+33	+4,615	1160.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+854	1068.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+819	+1,812,674	841.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+77	+22,555	295.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+26	+4,293	295.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+93	+30,809	228.0%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	+11	+4,568	192.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+74	+14,889	177.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+2,079	145.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+18	+5,250	126.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+15	+1,165	121.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+282	110.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+241	+54,074	107.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+106	+33,911	93.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+101	+9,352	58.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+960	52.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	+174	50.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+469	43.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+78	+3,960	38.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+15	+2,694	37.0%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	+915	27.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+94	24.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+1,620,081	22.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+63	+23,638	12.0%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+16	9.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+4	+610	5.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+23	+485	3.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+15	-998	-5.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-52	-8.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	+1	-444	-12.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-1,456	-17.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-5	-58,661	-20.0%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-16	-21.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-22,313	-22.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-19,933	-24.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-17	-53,312	-27.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-2	-26,378	-28.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-8	-73,234	-30.0%
Protestant Reformed Churches in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-31.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-25	-111,141	-32.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+3	-1,391	-35.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-4	-2,332	-44.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-22	-5,775	-52.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-585	-62.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-4,741	-63.0%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	+2	-6,773	-65.0%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-96	-73.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-46	-88.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+30	n.a.
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+760	n.a.
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	+15	+4,717	n.a.
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+57	+4,803	n.a.
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+3	+1,102	n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+207	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+25,400	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+9,025	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+14	+1,654	n.a.
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+189	n.a.
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+570	n.a.
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+813	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese	Orthodox	+2	+625	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	+5	+1,392	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+43	+7,801	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,026	n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+21	+5,034	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+74	+79,602	n.a.
	Totals:	+2,040	+3,410,527	+36.4%

The population of these 29 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 18,828,970; in 2000 it was 21,104,292. The total population changed 8.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (9,566,997) represent 50.8% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 66 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 66 groups had 9,357,544 adherents in 1980 and 12,768,071 adherents in 2000, for a change of 36.4%

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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