Corpus Christi, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

73,638	26,191	381	107,047	5,297	168,229
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	+1	+1,787	45.9%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,300	144.4%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1,299	615.6%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+435	271.9%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+359	14.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+333	115.6%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+260	896.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+180	150.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+173	37.5%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	+148	129.8%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+92	43.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+32	36.8%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+13	9.1%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1	2.3%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	0	0.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	-6	-14.6%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-3	-15	-0.3%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-22	-3.5%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-73	-35.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-74	-22.1%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-79	-38.2%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-117	-63.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-159	-6.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-207	-9.9%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-623	-4.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-645	-18.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-659	-15.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-2	-706	-23.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+13	-5,826	-10.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+3	-43,613	-28.9%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+12	-46,412	-18.0%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 349,894; in 2000 it was 380,783. The total population changed 8.8%. The adherent totals for 1990 (264,593) represent 75.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (212,554) include 55.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 30 groups had 257,319 adherents in 1990 and 210,907 adherents in 2000, for a change of -18.0%

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 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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