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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -615 -30.9%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -10 +4,665 12.6%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +181 113.8%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 -2,518 -24.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -1 +205,639 31.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +306 34.5%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -4 +498 5.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,191 21.1%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +527 193.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -534 -29.3%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +10 +2,182 76.9%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +4 +80 14.6%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +32 +12,795 56.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +4 +1,390 20.6%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,273 2.7%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -33 -10.1%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +2 +4,529 10.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +4 +505 171.2%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +840 3.1%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +689 428.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +2 +140 160.9%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +2 -1,027 -57.6%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +2 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -6 +10,075 28.4%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -2 +9,721 100.1%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +8 +1,991 1292.9%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +7 +980 176.6%
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant 0 +17 22.4%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +10 -1,875 -4.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 +2,086 5.5%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -1 -68 -41.5%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -413 -78.5%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 -354 -51.7%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -60 -31.3%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant -3 -176 -6.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 -1,130 -2.5%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,440 86.5%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +3,610 537.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +15 +2,144 32.3%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +103 +136,953 24.7%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox -1 -840 -93.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +2 +340 19.5%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant +1 -973 -16.6%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 +15,109 7.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +572 43.1%
  Totals: +193 +411,852 +22.4%

The population of these 8 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 3,731,131; in 2000 it was 4,669,571. The total population changed 25.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (2,122,295) represent 56.9% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (2,330,089) include 49.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 44 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 44 groups had 1,835,835 adherents in 1990 and 2,247,687 adherents in 2000, for a change of 22.4%

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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