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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 Association, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +2,120 57.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -852 -38.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -1 +6,737 30.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +5 +340 n.a.
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -5 -1,821 -28.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +16 +290,406 88.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +671 128.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -2,614 -26.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +563 18.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +2 +628 2166.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 -5,007 -83.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +15 +3,914 600.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +8 +280 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +40 +14,328 138.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,574 31.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +18 +2,574 8.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -24 -8.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 -102 0.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +106 143.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +5 -614 -4.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +850 n.a.
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +4 +131 128.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +3 +4,125 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +15 +43,750 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +16 +17,336 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +8 +1,427 3036.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +433 191.0%
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant +1 +93 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +13 +23,940 200.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,981 6.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -503 -82.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +4 +220 n.a.
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -92 -41.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +628 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +17 +1,505 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 +3,790 11.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +8 +2,261 510.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +910 33.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +27 +4,393 150.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +119 +183,829 61.0%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox +1 +60 n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +222 16.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 -683 -18.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +7 +36,586 27.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +228 36.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 +634 110.0%
  Totals: +370 +641,261 +63.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 2,409,547; in 2000 it was 3,400,578. The total population changed 20.7%. The adherent totals for 1980 (1,017,109) represent 42.2% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 46 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 46 groups had 1,015,473 adherents in 1980 and 1,656,734 adherents in 2000, for a change of 63.1%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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