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State Membership Report
New Jersey
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| 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 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
203 |
97,756 |
13.3 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
225 |
73,691 |
10.0 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
150 |
64,902 |
8.8 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
142 |
54,350 |
7.4 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
37 |
40,368 |
5.5 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
69 |
30,401 |
4.1 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
136 |
24,808 |
3.4 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
61 |
23,126 |
3.1 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
47 |
9,674 |
1.3 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
70 |
9,321 |
1.3 |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
2 |
9,321 |
1.3 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
24 |
8,826 |
1.2 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
46 |
8,675 |
1.2 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
29 |
7,878 |
1.1 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
22 |
7,328 |
1.0 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
37 |
7,283 |
1.0 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
35 |
4,700 |
0.6 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
20 |
4,375 |
0.6 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
33 |
4,156 |
0.6 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
35 |
4,040 |
0.6 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
37 |
3,265 |
0.4 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
46 |
2,956 |
0.4 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
16 |
2,649 |
0.4 |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
1 |
1,900 |
0.3 |
| Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
15 |
1,741 |
0.2 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
15 |
1,406 |
0.2 |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
4 |
1,162 |
0.2 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
7 |
1,181 |
0.2 |
| Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Mainline Protestant |
4 |
882 |
0.1 |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
860 |
0.1 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
907 |
0.1 |
| Reformed Episcopal Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
7 |
658 |
0.1 |
| Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
662 |
0.1 |
| Evangelical Congregational Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
493 |
0.1 |
| Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
496 |
0.1 |
| Evangelical Covenant Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
530 |
0.1 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
465 |
0.1 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
453 |
0.1 |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
434 |
0.1 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
332 |
0.1 |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
248 |
0.0 |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
1 |
210 |
0.0 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
145 |
0.0 |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
124 |
0.0 |
| Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
153 |
0.0 |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
80 |
0.0 |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
52 |
0.0 |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
96 |
0.0 |
| Protestant Reformed Churches in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
39 |
0.0 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
59 |
0.0 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 3,665 |
3,982,743 |
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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.
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