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Bristol County, Massachusetts

Denominational Groups, 2000

13,783 21,620 1,386 268,434 15,558 213,897
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 92 281,670 593.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 21 5,389 11.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 20 5,448 11.5
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 19 11,820 24.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 19 4,351 9.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 9 1,905 4.0
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 7 468 1.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 6 2,321 4.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 1,811 3.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 665 1.4
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 5 994 2.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 4 520 1.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 294 0.6
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 286 0.6
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 3 270 0.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 3 1,689 3.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 211 0.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 1,151 2.4
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 3 191 0.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 382 0.8
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 875 1.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 348 0.7
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 590 1.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 722 1.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 42 0.1
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 31 0.1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 1 19 0.0
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 25 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 298 0.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 52 0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 141 0.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 252 324,979  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 474,641. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (324,979) include 68.5% 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.