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Providence-Warwick-Pawtucket, RI NECMA

Denominational Groups, 2000

16,117 66,033 8,197 507,360 20,479 344,700
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 152 588,863 642.7
Advent Christian Church Evangelical Protestant 4 191 0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 2 495 0.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 17 3,035 3.3
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 114 0.1
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 8,314 9.1
Christ Catholic Church Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 802 0.9
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 3 280 0.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 240 0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 8 723 0.8
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 3 102 0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America Evangelical Protestant 1 96 0.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 434 0.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 570 0.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 5 n.a. n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 211 0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 40 0.0
General Six Principle Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 147 0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 600 0.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 6 2,850 3.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 58 0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 1,415 1.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 42 0.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 68 0.1
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA Evangelical Protestant 3 293 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 220 0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 3 436 0.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 6 695 0.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 4 1,113 1.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 139 0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 70 19,934 21.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 55 27,468 30.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 11 4,866 5.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 5 379 0.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 2 172 0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 8 2,315 2.5
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 28 9,116 10.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 23 8,204 9.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia Orthodox 1 9,000 9.8
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 0.8
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 5 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,106 1.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 21 15,401 16.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 7 1,514 1.7
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 497 712,808  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 916,270. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (712,808) include 77.8% 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.