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Harris County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

696,597 278,251 8,302 618,649 111,412 1,687,367
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
Catholic Church Catholic 90 328,243 136.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Evangelical Protestant 1 371 0.2
American Baptist Association, The Evangelical Protestant 20 3,704 1.5
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 86 22,785 9.5
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 20 6,485 2.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 4 523 0.2
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 5 885 0.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 14 3,211 1.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 29 0.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 12 6,030 2.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 7 652 0.3
Church of God (Seventh Day) Evangelical Protestant 3 212 0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession Evangelical Protestant 1 114 0.1
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 23 5,068 2.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 127 31,055 12.9
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 1 318 0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 74 0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 47 0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 5 227 0.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 49 32,194 13.4
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 224 0.1
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 5 443 0.2
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 4 2,778 1.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 1 15 0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 10 2,935 1.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 246 301,246 125.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 3 574 0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 4 2,230 0.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 22 10,018 4.2
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 43 40,103 16.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 32 16,976 7.1
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 1 102 0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 1 616 0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 55 34,352 14.3
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 11 3,813 1.6
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 135 134,032 55.6
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 642 0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 23 10,362 4.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 8 11,960 5.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 5 1,422 0.6
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 1,084 1,017,109  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 2,409,547. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,017,109) include 42.2% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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.