Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Corpus Christi, TX
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	107,047	(1)		150,660	(1)		50	47
Southern Baptist Convention	52,429	(2)		58,255	(2)		85	72
United Methodist Church, The	15,115	(3)		15,738	(3)		27	27
Assemblies of God	5,681	(4)		3,894	(7)		23	22
Churches of Christ	4,875	(5)		4,890	(5)		33	36
Episcopal Church	3,745	(6)		4,404	(6)		10	10
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	2,924	(7)		2,565	(10)		9	8
Presbyterian Church (USA)	2,867	(8)		3,512	(8)		15	14
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	2,359	(9)		3,065	(9)		9	11
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	2,314	(10)		2,473	(11)		8	9
Independent, Charismatic Churches	2,200	(11)		900	(15)		2	2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada	1,888	(12)		2,095	(12)		7	8
Salvation Army, The	1,510	(13)		211	(21)		1	1
Jewish Estimate	1,400	(14)		1,400	(13)		1	2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	634	(15)		461	(17)		3	5

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		380,783
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		55.8%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	42	(36 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	212,554	(264,593 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	335	(316 in 1990)

The metro area included 2 counties (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Nueces County, TX; San Patricio County, TX
	The newly published book Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 includes a CD that allows users to determine such lists for any selected group of counties.
Source:	Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990
	Both studies, copyrighted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, are published by the Glenmary Research Center, Nashville, Tenn. More information is available at www.glenmary.org/grc.