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El Paso, TX MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

51,161 17,296 1,016 349,866 11,776 248,507
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 +4 +1,244 24.5%
Catholic Church Catholic +8 -43,634 -11.1%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +5 5.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -274 -20.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +193 35.7%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +86 113.2%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -38 -52.8%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +229 305.3%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +1 +56 63.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 -316 -5.3%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 +3,014 276.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 +54 2.5%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -89 -48.6%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -675 -19.1%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 -401 -24.5%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +20 100.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -4 -2,050 -59.4%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -2 +1,850 115.6%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +1 +288 108.3%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant -4 -346 -49.2%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +100 2.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 -18 -1.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +390 487.5%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -1,274 -33.2%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,129 442.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -134 -9.9%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -1 -5,510 -18.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +25 22.5%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -276 -58.7%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -3,360 -27.7%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +43 9.3%
  Totals: +10 -49,669 -10.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 591,610; in 2000 it was 679,622. The total population changed 14.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (486,969) represent 82.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (431,115) include 63.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 31 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 31 groups had 476,955 adherents in 1990 and 427,286 adherents in 2000, for a change of -10.4%

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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