Massachusetts (1906) religious affiliation, as reported in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV, Copyright 1912 by Robert Appleton Company, stated as of 1906, a census of religious bodies listed Massachusetts' 3 million citizens as:
<Congregationalist-7.6 percent
Baptists-5.2 percent
Methodists-4.2 percent
Protestant Episcopalians-3.3 percent
Catholics-69.2 percent, consisting of Irish, French Canadians, Italians, Portuguese, Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Syrians, Bravas, African America and Chinese.> 1906MA001
The 1906 religious affiliation of Massachusetts was reported in The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, published 1911:
<With foreign immigration, the Roman Catholic Church greatly increased, so that by 1906, an estimated 355 out of every 1,000 citizens were members of the Roman Catholic Church (a proportion exceeded only in New Mexico and Rhode Island; in Louisiana, 310 out of every 1,000 were Catholic). Only 148 out of every 1000 were communicants of Protestant bodies. In 1906 there were 1,080,706 Roman Catholics (out of a total of 1,562,621 communicants of all denominations), 119,196 Congregationalists, 80,894 Baptists, 65,498 Methodists and 51,636 Protestant Episcopalians.> 1906MA002
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1906MA002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Massachusetts, 1906, religious affiliation as reported in The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, published 1911. http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Massachusetts.