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State Membership Report
Texas
Denominational Groups, 2000
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| 5,084,656 |
1,681,070 |
22,755 |
4,368,969 |
416,099 |
9,278,204 |
| Evangelical Protestant |
Mainline Protestant |
Orthodox |
Catholic |
Other |
Unclaimed |
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
% Change |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+688 |
+260,064 |
8.0% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+112 |
+44,175 |
39.7% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+29 |
+4,748 |
86.1% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+24 |
+10,431 |
37.5% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+24 |
+4,798 |
11.6% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+23 |
+8,501 |
156.1% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+20 |
+8,223 |
192.2% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
+20 |
+20,020 |
18.5% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+17 |
+26,016 |
12.9% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+12 |
+4,257 |
77.9% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
+11 |
-257 |
-0.2% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+19,394 |
341.7% |
| Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+5 |
+224 |
155.6% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
+5 |
+1,029 |
17.6% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
+3 |
+794,241 |
22.2% |
| Church of God in Christ, Mennonite |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+327 |
62.6% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
+3 |
+8,798 |
5.2% |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
+3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+96 |
29.2% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+1,562 |
35.0% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+9,836 |
29.1% |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+14 |
107.7% |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+62 |
22.3% |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+57 |
81.4% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+1,070 |
123.6% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-12 |
-0.4% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-18 |
-6.0% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+959 |
195.7% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+5,826 |
4.3% |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
+1 |
-5 |
-0.7% |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
+1 |
+448 |
28.1% |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-79 |
-76.0% |
| Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+26 |
66.7% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
-1,474 |
-57.8% |
| Interstate & Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptists Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+17 |
22.4% |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-376 |
-94.0% |
| Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-24 |
-45.3% |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-1,951 |
-18.8% |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-65 |
-4.0% |
| Church of God General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-38 |
-40.9% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
+5,431 |
12.0% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-2,114 |
-42.8% |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
-2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
+776 |
25.2% |
| Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch |
Orthodox |
-3 |
-1,740 |
-96.7% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
+648 |
72.6% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-4 |
-12 |
-1.4% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-4 |
-4,363 |
-20.8% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-7 |
-1,185 |
-20.2% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-7 |
-13 |
-1.1% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
-8 |
-5,848 |
-45.3% |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-25 |
-2,125 |
-1.7% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
-27 |
-3,684 |
-1.0% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
-27 |
-704 |
-5.7% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
-30 |
-20,654 |
-10.3% |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-34 |
+31,599 |
24.7% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
-50 |
+5,793 |
5.5% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-56 |
+12,957 |
9.8% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-76 |
+18,024 |
1.8% |
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Totals:
+653
| +1,263,706 |
+12.6% |
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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 adherent totals for 1990 (10,896,401) represent 64.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (11,573,549) include 55.5% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 57 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 57 groups had 10,064,564 adherents in 1990 and 11,328,270 adherents in 2000, for a change of 12.6%
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 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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