Dallas-Fort Worth, TX CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,296,169	474,770	7,257	808,167	144,292	2,491,146
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	+6	+2,910	78.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-38	-12,865	-86.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+36	+24,617	56.0%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+1,698	5.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+21	+590,825	272.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+699	378.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	+1,919	4.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+8,281	236.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+418	550.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	-601	-56.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+20	+7,535	172.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+245	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+73	+26,612	193.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+17	+5,528	76.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+16,283	19.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,166	52.0%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+65	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+7	+7,966	19.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+560	431.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+19	+8,203	51.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+195	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-594	-66.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-56	-60.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+3	+2,643	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+18	+26,275	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+60	+76,348	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+11	+1,102	84.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+1,379	406.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+18	+41,273	469.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+8,769	49.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	+47	55.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+328	n.a.
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+539	728.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	+1	+63	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+4	+1,017	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+26	+1,763	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-116	-5,363	-10.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+7,314	1440.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+4	+2,040	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+2,589	72.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+27	+10,736	122.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+335	+249,052	41.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+649	44.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+1	-558	-21.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-9	+64,335	28.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	+3	+2,762	310.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+960	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+876	123.0%
	Totals:	+630	+1,188,547	+80.5%

The population of these 12 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 3,046,084; in 2000 it was 5,221,801. The total population changed 29.3%. The adherent totals for 1980 (1,481,952) represent 48.7% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (2,730,655) include 52.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 48 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 48 groups had 1,476,550 adherents in 1980 and 2,665,097 adherents in 2000, for a change of 80.5%

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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