Rhode Island
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
165 |
633,427 |
631.2 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
77 |
21,703 |
21.6 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
66 |
31,865 |
31.8 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
30 |
9,482 |
9.5 |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
26 |
9,425 |
9.4 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
24 |
16,101 |
16.1 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
18 |
3,203 |
3.2 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
12 |
5,500 |
5.5 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
9 |
617 |
0.6 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
9 |
2,835 |
2.8 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
8 |
1,661 |
1.7 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
8 |
723 |
0.7 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
2,850 |
2.8 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
695 |
0.7 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
605 |
0.6 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
1,641 |
1.6 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
5 |
1,438 |
1.4 |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
383 |
0.4 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
802 |
0.8 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
434 |
0.4 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
1,415 |
1.4 |
| Advent Christian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
4 |
191 |
0.2 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
102 |
0.1 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
58 |
0.1 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
280 |
0.3 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
297 |
0.3 |
| Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
436 |
0.4 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
240 |
0.2 |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
114 |
0.1 |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
211 |
0.2 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
495 |
0.5 |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
721 |
0.7 |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
2 |
172 |
0.2 |
| Christ Catholic Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
47 |
0.1 |
| Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
96 |
0.1 |
| Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia |
Orthodox |
1 |
9,000 |
9.0 |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
600 |
0.6 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
42 |
0.0 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
68 |
0.1 |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
1 |
700 |
0.7 |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| General Six Principle Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
147 |
0.2 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
139 |
0.1 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
40 |
0.0 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
8,963 |
8.9 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 554 |
769,964 |
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The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,003,464. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (769,964) include 76.7% 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.
