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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	1,293	4,368,969	209.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	4,973	3,519,459	168.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2,110	1,022,342	49.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2,188	377,264	18.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1,291	228,098	10.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	549	180,315	8.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	427	177,910	8.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	79	159,449	7.7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	441	155,451	7.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	412	155,019	7.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	126	145,249	7.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	346	140,106	6.7
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	92	128,000	6.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	473	123,198	5.9
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	91	114,999	5.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	378	111,288	5.3
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	380	61,272	2.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	323	50,528	2.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	282	46,268	2.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	149	43,602	2.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	230	38,259	1.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	56	25,070	1.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	70	16,587	0.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	63	13,946	0.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	94	12,501	0.6
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	32	11,637	0.6
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	136	11,592	0.6
Bahá'í	Other Theology	70	10,777	0.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	119	10,265	0.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	45	9,720	0.5
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	18	9,444	0.5
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	49	8,422	0.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	16	7,057	0.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	45	6,872	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	39	6,025	0.3
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	17	5,570	0.3
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	87	4,669	0.2
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	14	4,642	0.2
National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA	Evangelical Protestant	62	4,463	0.2
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	8	4,041	0.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	42	3,858	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	84	2,906	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	53	2,822	0.1
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	45	2,817	0.1
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese of the	Orthodox	9	2,675	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	7	2,096	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	2,040	0.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,936	0.1
Mennonite; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,655	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,569	0.1
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,540	0.1
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,449	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	5	1,275	0.1
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,215	0.1
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	4	1,152	0.1
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	3	1,110	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	25	1,074	0.1
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,022	0.1
Landmark Missionary Baptists, Independent Associations and Unaffiliated Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	964	0.1
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	18	874	0.0
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	8	849	0.0
Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America	Orthodox	3	825	0.0
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	4	716	0.0
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	7	684	0.0
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	644	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	11	425	0.0
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	2	413	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	403	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	368	0.0
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	5	340	0.0
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	284	0.0
Progressive Primitive Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	3	197	0.0
Conservative Mennonite Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	191	0.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis	Orthodox	1	135	0.0
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	127	0.0
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	1	93	0.0
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	1	80	0.0
Amish; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	1	68	0.0
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.0
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	1	60	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	55	0.0
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	29	0.0
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	28	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	27	0.0
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	24	0.0
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA (New Gracanica Metropolitanate)	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Sikh	Other Theology	13	n.a.	n.a.
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	19	n.a.	n.a.
Zoroastrian	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Tao	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	13	n.a.	n.a.
Jain	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Hindu	Other Theology	34	n.a.	n.a.
Coptic Orthodox Church	Orthodox	8	n.a.	n.a.
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	118	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	10	n.a.	n.a.
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Buddhism	Other Theology	88	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	18,466	11,573,549
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		14,007,976

The population of these 253 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 16,986,403; in 2000 it was 20,851,753. The total population changed 22.8%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (11,573,549) include 55.5% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (14,007,976) include 67.2% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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