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According to Pew Research as of 2014, the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex has the largest Christian population by percentage out of any large metropolitan area in the United States at 78%. [ 2 ] 46.8% of metroplex residents are highly religious, and 29.6% are moderately religious. [ 3 ]
To avoid being mistakenly associated with fundamentalist groups, many moderate Baptist churches have adopted names such as "Community Church" or "Community Chapel" that leave out the denomination's name. This fits into a general trend by church planters from many denominations to de-accentuate their denomination's name. [72]
A map of Catholicism by population percentage. Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity and the Catholic Church is the largest among churches. About 50% of all Christians are Catholics. [1] [2] According to the annual directory of the Catholic Church or Annuario Pontificio of 2024, there were 1.390 billion baptized Catholics in 2022.
It is no longer owned by the church. The Houston area was originally part of the Texas-Louisiana Mission of the Church. Today, there are 22 Stakes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that serve the Houston, Texas area. Stakes are geographical groupings of congregations comparable to, but smaller than, Catholic dioceses and ...
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) counts 26,344,933 members of mainline churches versus 39,930,869 members of evangelical Protestant churches. [24] There is evidence that there has been a shift in membership from mainline denominations to evangelical churches. [25]
Mainline churches tend to belong to organizations such as the National Council of Churches and World Council of Churches. Mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Episcopal Church (76%), [30] the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (64%), [30] and the United Church of Christ (46%), [31] [32] have the highest number of graduate and post-graduate ...
The St. Mary and Archangel Michael church is the largest Copt church in the Houston area. [24] In the late 1960s, there were far fewer Coptic families, and they were served by a priest from Los Angeles, who would fly monthly to Houston and hold mass in a borrowed Orthodox church or in a private house. [23]
The largest denomination is the Catholic Church with more than 1.3 billion members. [24] The smallest of these groups may have only a few dozen adherents or an unspecified number of participants in independent churches as described below. As such, specific numbers and a certain size may not define a group as a denomination.