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Providence County, Rhode Island

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,269 37,198 8,197 323,910 14,742 226,286
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 102 423,608 710.4
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 88 0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 495 0.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 11 1,811 3.0
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 18 0.0
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 7,817 13.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 802 1.4
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 6 549 0.9
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 3 102 0.2
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 1 96 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 358 0.6
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 418 0.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 185 0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 600 1.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 4 1,750 2.9
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 58 0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 988 1.7
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 68 0.1
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 3 293 0.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 220 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 5 644 1.1
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 2 655 1.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 139 0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 41 13,095 22.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 32 14,253 23.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 1,557 2.6
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 3 314 0.5
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 43 0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 567 1.0
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 21 6,535 11.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 12 4,708 7.9
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 1 9,000 15.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 2 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox 1 700 1.2
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 3 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 871 1.5
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 17 10,267 17.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 6 1,218 2.0
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 320 505,030  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 596,270. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (505,030) include 84.7% 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.