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Abilene, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

61,056 14,488 34 8,352 975 41,650
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 5 7,152 59.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 9 933 7.8
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 2 194 1.6
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 3,177 26.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 46 0.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 81 0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 68 0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 2 149 1.3
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 24 0.2
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 503 4.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 38 11,574 96.7
Evangelical Methodist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 2 68 0.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 350 2.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 2 1,950 16.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 3 292 2.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 824 6.9
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 1 31 0.3
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 1 77 0.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 250 2.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 160 1.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 40 43,439 363.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 35 0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 2 970 8.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 1,253 10.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 1 597 5.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 1,452 12.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 18 10,290 86.0
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 792 6.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 0 0.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 10 0.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 151 86,791  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 119,655. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (86,791) include 72.5% 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.