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	% Change
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+56	+17,154	39.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-36	-13,429	-66.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+27	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+158	+65,897	41.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+368	n.a.
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+340	n.a.
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	-28	+6,741	6.0%
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+127	n.a.
Catholic Church	Catholic	+66	+2,029,032	87.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+19	+1,619	72.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-62	-8,746	-7.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+17,747	69.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,771	1073.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+8	-11,363	-71.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+53	+22,906	149.0%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-33	-38.0%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+642	310.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+84	+2,906	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+236	+87,548	129.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-93	-25.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+23	+11,139	28.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-32	+21,938	6.0%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-67	-73.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+137	2.0%
Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+65	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+38	+3,452	2.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+945	1227.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+31	+8,401	637.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+47	+10,915	8.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+1,449	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-971	-53.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+12	-749	-41.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+18	+9,444	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+79	+159,449	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+126	+145,249	n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+49	+5,627	82.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	+54	+6,314	160.0%
Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+93	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+46	+97,586	321.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+39	+23,223	20.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+76	22.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	+1	-66	-8.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+53	+2,822	n.a.
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+588	60.0%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+24	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	+2	+413	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	+7	+2,096	n.a.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+345	115.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+136	+11,592	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-314	-15,555	-8.0%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+46	+11,974	607.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+4	+2,040	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+12	+10,350	70.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+109	+23,130	100.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1,077	+859,565	32.0%
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	-1	-916	-94.0%
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+29	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+14	+2,285	50.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-4,039	-20.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-146	+89,877	10.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	+11	+3,662	192.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+1,540	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+21	+3,593	148.0%
	Totals:	+2,195	+3,730,225	+48.6%

The population of these 253 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 14,229,100; in 2000 it was 20,851,753. The total population changed 22.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (7,685,848) represent 54.0% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (11,573,549) include 55.5% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 63 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 63 groups had 7,677,291 adherents in 1980 and 11,407,516 adherents in 2000, for a change of 48.6%

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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