Angelina County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

39,009	6,795	75	8,302	407	25,542
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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+5,652	213.0%
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+298	26.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,657	92.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+3,470	79.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+175	233.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-76	-20.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+776	40.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+36	13.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+38	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+546	369.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+28	32.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+3,622	20.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+409	46.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+31	6.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	+97	27.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+2	+472	12.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+84	38.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+18	n.a.
	Totals:	14	+17,333	+46.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 64,172; in 2000 it was 80,130. The total population changed 14.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (36,920) represent 57.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (54,588) include 68.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 18 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 18 groups had 36,920 adherents in 1980 and 54,253 adherents in 2000, for a change of 46.9%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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