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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
Catholic Church Catholic 24 99,480 617.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 12 3,188 19.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 9 6,171 38.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 6 2,145 13.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 2,505 15.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 209 1.3
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 739 4.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 2 1,168 7.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 220 1.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 96 0.6
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
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 63 0.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 80 0.5
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
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 296 1.8
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 246 1.5
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.