Texas

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,084,656	1,681,070	22,755	4,368,969	416,099	9,278,204
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	4,285	3,259,395	191.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2,215	380,948	22.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2,186	1,004,318	59.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	1,290	3,574,728	210.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1,274	202,082	11.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	579	200,969	11.8
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	498	125,323	7.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	428	105,495	6.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	424	169,112	10.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	401	155,276	9.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	345	134,280	7.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	329	111,276	6.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	325	45,097	2.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	258	41,470	2.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	206	27,828	1.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	182	132,292	7.8
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	163	12,296	0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	147	33,766	2.0
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	113	127,850	7.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	94	5,854	0.3
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	93	n.a.	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	90	5,517	0.3
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	83	2,918	0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	74	4,278	0.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	74	20,950	1.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	72	107,980	6.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	55	4,936	0.3
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	53	2,544	0.2
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	50	10,373	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	50	5,676	0.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	45	3,082	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	40	5,445	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	40	5,843	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	36	4,463	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	35	6,766	0.4
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	33	5,463	0.3
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	32	1,743	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	27	1,228	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	25	2,548	0.2
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	24	12,905	0.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	22	886	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,482	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	15	n.a.	n.a.
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,634	0.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	892	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	9	n.a.	n.a.
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	9	866	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,191	0.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	8	329	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	490	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	6	242	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	221	0.0
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	5	522	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	302	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	278	0.0
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	4	n.a.	n.a.
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	4	1,800	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	1,592	0.1
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	93	0.0
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	400	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	3	144	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	3	721	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	146	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	73	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	144	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	282	0.0
Christ Catholic Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	3	0.0
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	115	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	13	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	71	0.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	23	0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	104	0.0
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	0.0
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.0
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	815,771	48.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	16,961	10,896,401

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 16,986,403. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (10,896,401) include 64.1% 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.