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Dallas County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

465,217 196,245 5,186 480,510 75,594 996,147
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
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 3 1,088 0.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 10 6,265 3.4
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox 0 123 0.1
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 91 27,900 15.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 36 17,124 9.2
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 154,548 83.4
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.0
Catholic Church Catholic 42 207,535 112.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 3 133 0.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 11 3,575 1.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 38 19,042 10.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 8 1,139 0.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 205 0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 11 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 5 520 0.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 28 3,956 2.1
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 3 162 0.1
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 4 157 0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 29 11,080 6.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession Evangelical Protestant 1 74 0.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 25 5,235 2.8
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 116 47,468 25.6
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 3 778 0.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 39 27,330 14.8
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 2 50 0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 27 10,622 5.7
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 74 0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 348 0.2
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 0 0.0
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 20 0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 4 241 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 129 0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 17 18,725 10.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 35 34,346 18.5
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 9 747 0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 2 159 0.1
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 11 24,672 13.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 19 9,713 5.2
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 5 183 0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 3 460 0.3
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 3 369 0.2
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 10 535 0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 50 35,022 18.9
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 8 1,305 0.7
Primitive Baptists Associations Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.0
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 507 0.3
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 8 796 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 16 3,529 1.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 209 321,341 173.4
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox 2 900 0.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 4 1,263 0.7
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 4 1,488 0.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 99 112,771 60.9
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 20 0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 565 0.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 1,071 1,116,423  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 1,852,810. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,116,423) include 60.3% 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.