Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Bergen-Passaic, NJ (PMSA)
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	639,014	(1)		624,051	(1)		133	128
Jewish Estimate	100,700	(2)		103,700	(2)		82	82
Muslim Estimate	28,883	(3)		NA			16	NA
Episcopal Church	13,355	(4)		17,068	(5)		50	52
United Methodist Church, The	13,306	(5)		14,849	(6)		52	47
Reformed Church in America	12,753	(6)		17,071	(4)		50	54
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	12,120	(7)		13,830	(7)		51	48
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	9,255	(8)		12,122	(8)		32	35
Assemblies of God	9,234	(9)		6,304	(14)		38	35
American Baptist Churches in the USA	8,122	(10)		6,762	(13)		40	33
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	7,000	(11)		NA			2	NA
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	6,459	(12)		NR			5	5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	6,074	(13)		7,847	(11)		20	19
Christian Reformed Church in North America	5,072	(14)		5,461	(15)		14	16
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	3,250	(15)		7,700	(12)		4	2

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		1,373,167
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		65.9%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	60	(44 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	905,224	(899,380 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	764	(689 in 1990)

The metro area included 2 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Bergen County, NJ; Passaic County, NJ
	The newly published book Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 includes a CD that allows users to determine such lists for any selected group of counties.
Source:	Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990
	Both studies, copyrighted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, are published by the Glenmary Research Center, Nashville, Tenn. More information is available at www.glenmary.org/grc.