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

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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