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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -2 -494 -17.6%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,719 19.3%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -678 -84.4%
Catholic Church Catholic -4 +128,701 28.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -2 +2 1.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant +3 +1,153 62.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 +205 12.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 +85 28.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -2 +596 32.4%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +30 75.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +5 +1,474 17.6%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +3 +549 26.4%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +1,866 20.7%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +121 37.6%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -385 -3.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +315 10.9%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -1,133 -7.9%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -19 -39.6%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -75 -79.8%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -5 +23,830 115.2%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +2 +4,440 188.9%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +360 444.4%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant -2 +119 44.2%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +1,897 20.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,757 19.6%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -2 -164 -77.4%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +45 180.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -359 -3.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 +117 94.4%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,367 442.4%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -43 -2.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +34 -3,973 -3.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 +147 37.7%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -211 -30.7%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 +3,347 8.9%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +129 40.3%
  Totals: +34 +166,837 +22.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,185,394; in 2000 it was 1,392,931. The total population changed 17.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (769,565) represent 64.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (907,309) include 65.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 36 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 36 groups had 732,976 adherents in 1990 and 899,813 adherents in 2000, for a change of 22.8%

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 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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