Kent County, Rhode Island

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,325	13,253		94,194	2,298	55,020
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	63	0.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	12	3,188	19.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	739	4.6
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	96	0.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	246	1.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	24	99,480	617.4
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	220	1.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	129	0.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	235	1.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	9	6,171	38.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	2,505	15.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	600	3.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	2,567	15.9
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	129	0.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	1,168	7.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	296	1.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	209	1.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	6	2,145	13.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	74	120,266

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 161,135. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (120,266) include 74.6% 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.