Bee County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,740	1,899		6,886	270	18,564
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	160	6.4
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	257	10.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	7	8,540	339.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	173	6.9
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	1.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	357	14.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	218	8.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	459	18.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	300	11.9
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	180	7.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	425	16.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	2.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,908	155.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	63	2.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	5	1,044	41.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	44	16,167

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 25,135. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (16,167) include 64.3% 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.