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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -3 +730 5.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +15 +715 130.2%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +5 +708 39.1%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +503 228.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +464 53.3%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -5 +413 4.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +325 54.2%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 +252 70.4%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant -1 +230 396.6%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +226 221.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +118 18.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 +92 230.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +40 58.8%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +32 177.8%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +8 4.3%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +6 14.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -3 -0.5%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -5 -12.5%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -22 -2.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -28 -1.8%
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant +1 -50 -17.1%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -155 -49.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 -196 -19.8%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -236 -56.5%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox 0 -450 -64.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -474 -38.9%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +2 -486 -74.2%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -861 -13.2%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -934 -19.8%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -3 -1,450 -82.9%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -2,629 -18.4%
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 0 -7,600 -84.4%
Catholic Church Catholic -5 -99,698 -23.5%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
  Totals: +10 -110,415 -22.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 596,270; in 2000 it was 621,602. The total population changed 4.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (505,030) represent 84.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (395,316) include 63.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 33 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 33 groups had 496,335 adherents in 1990 and 385,920 adherents in 2000, for a change of -22.2%

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 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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