Bristol County, Rhode Island

Denominational Groups, 2000

650	4,242		30,588	2,111	13,057
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	10	33,834	692.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	2,285	46.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	1,123	23.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	856	17.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2	559	11.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	500	10.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	2	400	8.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	366	7.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	156	3.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	130	2.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	28	40,209

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 48,859. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (40,209) include 82.3% 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.