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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 Association, The Evangelical Protestant +10 +3,805 62.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -852 -38.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +7 +10,331 33.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +5 +340 n.a.
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant -7 -1,861 -19.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +20 +428,819 102.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +5 +671 128.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -3 -2,177 -18.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 +3,210 89.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +3 +771 2659.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 -5,435 -81.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +7 +3,379 206.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +18 +629 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +56 +20,708 142.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,975 32.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +29 +6,333 15.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -24 -8.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +5 -1,028 -2.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +6 +726 981.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +12 +2,961 12.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +850 n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant +3 +188 482.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +8 -513 -40.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +4 +4,431 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +18 +45,550 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +17 +19,436 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +13 +2,098 4464.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,023 200.0%
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association Evangelical Protestant +1 +93 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +16 +28,610 227.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +3,622 10.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -503 -82.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +6 +331 n.a.
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -92 -41.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 +628 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +24 +2,481 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -2 +2,756 7.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +11 +2,661 601.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,194 39.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +39 +5,452 164.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +210 +277,023 67.0%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox +1 +60 n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology +2 +583 39.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -970 -16.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant +6 +56,542 32.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +228 36.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +5 +1,284 208.0%
  Totals: +582 +928,327 +69.5%

The population of these 8 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 3,119,831; in 2000 it was 4,669,571. The total population changed 25.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (1,336,996) represent 42.9% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 47 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 47 groups had 1,335,152 adherents in 1980 and 2,263,479 adherents in 2000, for a change of 69.5%

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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