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	776	3,189,315	412.6
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	326	429,885	55.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	225,445	29.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	583	166,502	21.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	373	138,763	18.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	294	105,607	13.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	205	86,825	11.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	254	82,795	10.7
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	140	41,392	5.4
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	45	40,872	5.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	180	39,374	5.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	69	25,387	3.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	59	18,405	2.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	97	15,371	2.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	35	11,806	1.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	48	10,881	1.4
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	10,600	1.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	16	9,940	1.3
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	9,000	1.2
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	2	7,700	1.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	46	7,689	1.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	21	6,543	0.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	42	5,348	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	20	4,894	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	47	4,565	0.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	41	4,203	0.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	39	4,149	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	37	4,058	0.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	23	3,640	0.5
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,147	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	24	2,108	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	24	2,003	0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,968	0.3
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	7	1,637	0.2
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,570	0.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	21	1,272	0.2
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	5	1,223	0.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,210	0.2
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	2	964	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	11	859	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	4	828	0.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	4	825	0.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	4	589	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	9	543	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	16	541	0.1
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	529	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	441	0.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	420	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	4	310	0.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	307	0.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	266	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	264	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	196	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	187	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	156	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	2	105	0.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	99	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	62	0.0
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	57	0.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	2	49	0.0
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	11	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	39	n.a.	n.a.
Byelorussion Council Of Orthodox Churches In North America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	46	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	24	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	23	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	21	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	4,183	4,734,822

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 7,730,188. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (4,734,822) include 61.3% 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.