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Menard County, Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

680 311   390   979
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
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 5 280 124.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 1 209 92.8
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 1 589 261.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 32 14.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 1 42 18.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 45 20.0
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 117 52.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 505 224.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 4 1.8
Catholic Church Catholic 1 300 133.2
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 14 2,123  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 2,252. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,123) include 94.3% 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.