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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	162	644,857	172.8
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	509	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	170	37,009	9.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	159	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	30	10,507	2.8
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	283,624	76.0
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	888	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,134	0.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	17	5,635	1.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	273	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	21	1,825	0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	18	2,837	0.8
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	9	488	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	14	549	0.2
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	35	6,747	1.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	236	47,573	12.8
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	327	0.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	295	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	36	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	161	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	87	0.0
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	24	35,475	9.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	19	9,715	2.6
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	6	154	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	555	0.2
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	67	38,124	10.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	3	164	0.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	5	685	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	192	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	27	2,657	0.7
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,664	0.5
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	7	320	0.1
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	672	0.2
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	2	97	0.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	42	6,628	1.8
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	516	555,402	148.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	104	0.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,328	0.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	5	1,993	0.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	37	9,628	2.6
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	69	44,827	12.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	66	26,974	7.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	12	1,784	0.5
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	526	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	79	45,839	12.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	15	5,873	1.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	238	216,922	58.1
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	87	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	2	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	2	900	0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	20	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	59	22,506	6.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	16	43,100	11.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	6	1,743	0.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,135	2,122,295

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 3,731,131. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,122,295) include 56.9% 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.