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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 |
% Change |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+1,080 |
348.4% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+152 |
276.4% |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+157 |
253.2% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+5,148 |
244.2% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+422 |
225.7% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+588 |
108.7% |
| International Pentecostal Church of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+57 |
100.0% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+528 |
97.2% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+24 |
+6,829 |
88.8% |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+153 |
78.1% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+834 |
68.9% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+21 |
+3,134 |
68.7% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+26 |
+8,049 |
68.2% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+28 |
+7,154 |
65.7% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+1,547 |
42.5% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
+8 |
+2,087 |
39.0% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+726 |
33.8% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+58 |
+12,691 |
32.2% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+500 |
25.0% |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
0 |
+337 |
20.6% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+147 |
17.1% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+554 |
13.4% |
| Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+5 |
10.9% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
+5 |
+38,115 |
8.9% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
+8 |
+5,726 |
6.9% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
-2 |
+213,705 |
6.7% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
+3 |
+215 |
4.4% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
0 |
0.0% |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
+1 |
-15 |
-1.8% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-9 |
-3.4% |
| Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-4 |
-3.8% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
-2 |
-164 |
-4.0% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-567 |
-8.7% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-5 |
-7,561 |
-8.7% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-37 |
-8.8% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+14 |
-1,646 |
-10.7% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
-3,068 |
-12.1% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
-7 |
-13,643 |
-12.9% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-19,028 |
-13.7% |
| Netherlands Reformed Congregations |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-151 |
-15.7% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-5 |
-26,369 |
-15.8% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
-2 |
-374 |
-19.0% |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-7 |
-8,701 |
-21.0% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-269 |
-21.1% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-2 |
-4,112 |
-22.3% |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-415 |
-33.9% |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-116 |
-37.8% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-8 |
-5,000 |
-50.3% |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
+2 |
-4,450 |
-57.8% |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-8,050 |
-75.9% |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
0 |
-6,900 |
-76.7% |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-43 |
-87.8% |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-99 |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
+2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
+10 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals:
+204
| +199,849 |
+4.5% |
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The population of these 21 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 7,730,188; in 2000 it was 8,414,350. The total population changed 8.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (4,734,822) represent 61.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (4,858,756) include 57.7% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 53 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 53 groups had 4,460,047 adherents in 1990 and 4,659,896 adherents in 2000, for a change of 4.5%
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 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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