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Denton County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

78,857 29,785   27,580 13,114 283,640
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 1 384 1.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 14 1,389 5.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 3 397 1.5
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 5,707 20.9
Catholic Church Catholic 5 15,160 55.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 4 1,083 4.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 384 1.4
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 3 281 1.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 10 3,707 13.6
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 692 2.5
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 21 4,547 16.6
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 222 0.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 5 1,366 5.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 85 0.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 4 1,675 6.1
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 70 0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 43 0.2
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 400 1.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 4 2,850 10.4
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 3,642 13.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 2,477 9.1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 115 0.4
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 3 320 1.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 5 2,473 9.0
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 1 109 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 184 0.7
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 54 38,735 141.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 100 0.4
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 1 242 0.9
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 23 14,073 51.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 112 0.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 182 103,024  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 273,525. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (103,024) include 37.7% 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.