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	507,360	526.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	67	19,727	20.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	54	22,692	23.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	26	8,376	8.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	23	7,275	7.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	22	1,314	1.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	22	3,374	3.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	16	15,400	16.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	11	5,465	5.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	8	2,078	2.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	8	1,089	1.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,733	1.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	802	0.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,290	1.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	1,929	2.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	6	660	0.7
Buddhism	Other Theology	5	n.a.	n.a.
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	347	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	5	264	0.3
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	770	0.8
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	4	328	0.3
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	243	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	336	0.4
Bahá'í	Other Theology	3	234	0.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	780	0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	3	332	0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,017	1.1
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	3	1,827	1.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	190	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	723	0.8
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	156	0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	925	1.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	2,739	2.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	160	0.2
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	0	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	1,400	1.5
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	2,400	2.5
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	474	0.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	300	0.3
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	250	0.3
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Hindu	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	108	0.1
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	193	0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	81	0.1
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	178	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis	Orthodox	1	675	0.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	517	618,186
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		705,891

The population of these 4 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 916,270; in 2000 it was 962,886. The total population changed 5.1%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (618,186) include 64.2% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (705,891) include 73.3% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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