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El Paso County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

51,161 17,296 1,016 349,866 11,776 248,507
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 23 5,079 8.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 9,697 16.4
Catholic Church Catholic 49 393,500 665.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 92 0.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 100 0.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 5 1,367 2.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 540 0.9
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 76 0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 2 n.a. n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 2 72 0.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 75 0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 3 164 0.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 3 88 0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 14 5,978 10.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 6 1,092 1.9
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 11 2,162 3.7
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 2 183 0.3
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 8 3,540 6.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 6 1,635 2.8
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 53 0.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 20 0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 6 3,450 5.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 4 1,600 2.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 266 0.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 8 703 1.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 2 4,900 8.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 5 1,718 2.9
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 80 0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 11 3,839 6.5
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 2 255 0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 7 1,347 2.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 52 30,119 50.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 111 0.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 470 0.8
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 22 12,136 20.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 462 0.8
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 278 486,969  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 591,610. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (486,969) include 82.3% 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.