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	% Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+37	+14,830	20.0%
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	+7	+1,974	n.a.
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+5	5.0%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	0	+200	10.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+102	+27,257	110.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+101	41.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+95	77.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-46	-88.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+14	+444,521	15.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+35	+10,478	259.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+413	35.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,579	340.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-1,352	-18.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-1,646	-62.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+22	+4,743	160.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+19	+1,129	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+32	+11,977	152.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+11	8.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+152	2.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+547	13.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+6	-1,048	-11.0%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+51	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	-21	-55,026	-37.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-40	-8.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+3,781	269.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-3	-18,492	-19.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+383	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+618	136.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-806	-17.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+24	+25,770	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+2,550	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+4,940	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+1,331	2256.0%
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+114	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+529	661.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+181	+403,098	621.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-8,082	-27.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-354	-30.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+2	-50	-6.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+3	0	n.a.
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+813	n.a.
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-243	-56.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+23	+3,471	n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+315	18.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+207	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-6	-54,294	-31.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+17	+1,596	176.0%
Protestant Reformed Churches in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-31.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-9	-21,659	-40.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-1,570	-18.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+41	+4,404	47.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+30	+9,360	108.0%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	+2	-6,071	-65.0%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	+10	+4,872	2320.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+3	+734	17.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-4	-8,833	-38.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-12	-43,475	-24.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+19	+2,873	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-77	-23.0%
	Totals:	+655	+768,646	+19.5%

The population of these 21 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 7,364,823; in 2000 it was 8,414,350. The total population changed 8.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (3,982,743) represent 54.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (4,858,756) include 57.7% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 59 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 59 groups had 3,935,766 adherents in 1980 and 4,704,412 adherents in 2000, for a change of 19.5%

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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