Bexar County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

222,347	84,604	1,179	574,108	25,071	485,622
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	118	123,634	104.3
Catholic Church	Catholic	96	445,407	375.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	61	37,801	31.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	48	8,897	7.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	42	9,020	7.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	33	12,106	10.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	29	14,303	12.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	21	1,839	1.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	20	12,972	10.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	17	8,359	7.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,080	1.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	13	8,944	7.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	12	20,680	17.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,619	1.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,170	1.8
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,848	1.6
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	269	0.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	5	9,103	7.7
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,350	2.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	5	300	0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	5	2,801	2.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	2,900	2.5
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	4	220	0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	803	0.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	687	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	390	0.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	119	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	212	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	105	0.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	322	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	320	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	309	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	124	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	81	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	94	0.1
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	36,117	30.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	628	769,565

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,185,394. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (769,565) include 64.9% 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.