Lee County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,880	2,157		1,137		6,483
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
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+26	42.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	+537	90.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+125	266.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+19	16.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-15	-50.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-55	-27.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+265	29.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+679	22.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+284	20.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+193	31.0%
	Totals:	+1	+2,058	+29.0%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 10,952; in 2000 it was 15,657. The total population changed 21.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (7,091) represent 64.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (9,174) include 58.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 10 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 10 groups had 7,091 adherents in 1980 and 9,149 adherents in 2000, for a change of 29.0%

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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