Newport County, Rhode Island

Denominational Groups, 2000

857	9,241	699	34,884	1,303	38,449
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	% Change
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+981	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+699	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	+605	637.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+2	+486	n.a.
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+388	42.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+202	152.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+110	43.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+110	138.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+67	32.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+60	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+42	25.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-12	-26.0%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	-39	-39.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-101	-18.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-174	-4.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-230	-40.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-256	-60.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-1	-383	-23.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-2	-7,764	-18.0%
	Totals:	7	-5,209	-10.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 81,383; in 2000 it was 85,433. The total population changed -2.0%. The adherent totals for 1980 (52,102) represent 64.0% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (46,984) include 55.0% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 19 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 19 groups had 52,102 adherents in 1980 and 46,893 adherents in 2000, for a change of -10.0%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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