New Jersey

Denominational Groups, 2000

204,101	577,299	59,117	3,403,020	615,219	3,555,594
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	760	2,958,499	401.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	590	183,608	24.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	379	174,029	23.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	308	146,990	20.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	225	73,691	10.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	203	97,756	13.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	150	64,902	8.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	142	54,350	7.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	136	24,808	3.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	70	9,321	1.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	69	30,401	4.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	61	23,126	3.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	47	9,674	1.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	46	8,675	1.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	46	2,956	0.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	37	7,283	1.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	37	40,368	5.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	37	3,265	0.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	35	4,040	0.6
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	35	4,700	0.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	33	4,156	0.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	29	7,878	1.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	24	8,826	1.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	22	7,328	1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	20	4,375	0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,649	0.4
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,741	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,406	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	9	907	0.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	465	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	7	1,181	0.2
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	658	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	4	1,162	0.2
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	4	882	0.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	4	662	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	496	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	434	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	860	0.1
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	530	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	453	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	332	0.1
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	493	0.1
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	2	9,321	1.3
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	2	96	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	153	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	0.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	145	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	248	0.0
Protestant Reformed Churches in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	1,900	0.3
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	210	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	124	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	3,665	3,982,743

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 7,364,823. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,982,743) include 54.1% 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.