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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -615 -30.9%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -12 +3,630 14.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +181 113.8%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 -1,886 -28.8%
Catholic Church Catholic -2 +94,398 18.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +333 38.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -107 -1.4%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +11 +2,666 240.6%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant -1 +384 140.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -559 -35.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +8 +2,128 87.3%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +2 +52 22.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +24 +9,138 58.8%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,283 23.9%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -4 -302 -0.9%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -33 -10.1%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 +4,296 12.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +150 500.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -2 -1,605 -8.9%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +689 428.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 -130 -35.8%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +2 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -7 +10,425 31.3%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 +8,661 99.8%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,339 991.9%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +383 138.3%
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant 0 +17 22.4%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +7 -161 -0.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 +1,638 5.0%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -2 -88 -53.7%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -413 -78.5%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +2 -311 -58.6%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -60 -31.3%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant -2 -608 -28.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -3 -443 -1.1%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,153 74.3%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +3,297 843.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,292 21.4%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +51 +89,923 22.8%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox -1 -840 -93.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +1 +112 7.3%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 -777 -19.9%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +4 +5,563 3.4%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +132 12.3%
  Totals: +96 +234,325 +16.6%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 2,818,199; in 2000 it was 3,400,578. The total population changed 20.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (1,643,405) represent 58.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,713,211) include 50.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 43 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 43 groups had 1,411,038 adherents in 1990 and 1,645,363 adherents in 2000, for a change of 16.6%

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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