Churches List A Directory of American Churches
State statistics · updated June 2026

How many churches are in Rhode Island?

Rhode Island has 536 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 54 cities and towns. 58 listings are verified, 530 include a phone number, and 173 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 708 congregations of 82 religious bodies in Rhode Island, with 565,251 reported adherents across 5 counties. 16 Rhode Island church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 5 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.

536
Directory listings
708
2020 Census congregations
565,251
2020 Census adherents
16
NRHP churches
RI capital N
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Largest religious bodies in Rhode Island (2020 US Religion Census)

Religious body Congregations Adherents
Catholic Church 142 445,597
Non-denominational Christian Churches 56 25,880
Episcopal Church 52 14,678
American Baptist Churches in the USA 70 11,381
Jehovah's Witnesses 33 6,902
United Methodist Church 21 5,825
Assemblies of God 33 5,428
United Church of Christ 26 4,892
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 8 4,259
Reform Judaism 3 3,348
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America 3 3,300
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 12 3,077
Muslim Estimate 8 2,599
Conservative Judaism 3 2,547
Seventh-day Adventist Church 18 2,327
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Largest traditions in the Rhode Island directory

Tradition Listings
Baptist Churches 91
Non-Denominational 91
Catholic 60
Episcopal 56
United Church of Christ 26
Church of God 19
Pentecostal 17
Lutheran 16
Assemblies of God 15
Congregational 13
United Methodist 13
Christian 12
Presbyterian 9
Church of Christ 9
Methodist 8
Where the churches are

Rhode Island cities with the most listings

Rhode Island counties

Sources and method

Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for Rhode Island (RI) as of June 2026. Congregations and adherents come from the 2020 US Religion Census, a county-level enumeration reported by religious bodies and aggregated here to the state; its methodology differs from a directory count and the two will not match. Historic-register counts join National Register of Historic Places listings to directory churches. Statistics for other states: Texas · California · Pennsylvania · North Carolina · Ohio · Florida · Illinois · Georgia · New York · Michigan. See also the national statistics page, the Rhode Island directory, and dataset licensing.