Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

963,228	372,054	9,353	850,496	134,958	2,339,482
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^†
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	409	415,332	133.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	232	175,489	56.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	210	42,513	13.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	153	31,343	10.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	141	421,677	135.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	79	41,953	13.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	66	50,384	16.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	63	36,588	11.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	55	24,853	8.0
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	38	6,154	2.0
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	36	12,303	3.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	35	14,593	4.7
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	35	9,850	3.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	33	6,162	2.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	21	1,640	0.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	19	6,726	2.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	18	3,320	1.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	16	5,870	1.9
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,616	1.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	10	12,615	4.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	512	0.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	3,088	1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	1,500	0.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	6	1,270	0.4
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	5	321	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	885	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	5	443	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	616	0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	4	2,230	0.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	523	0.2
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	509	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	224	0.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	318	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	642	0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	114	0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	74	0.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	616	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,752	1,336,996

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 3,119,831. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,336,996) include 42.9% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.