The

Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, officially designated Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States, ...

is located inside of the

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, and is home to three of the twenty-five largest

megachurches A megachurch is a Church (congregation), church with a very large membership that also offers a variety of educational and social activities. Most megachurches are Evangelicalism, Evangelical, although the term denotes a type of organization, not ...

in the country. According to

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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%. 46.8% of metroplex residents are highly religious, and 29.6% are moderately religious. In a 2017 survey, 37% of metroplex residents reported reading the Bible in the past week and strongly agreeing that the Bible is accurate, the 25th highest percentage among U.S. cities.

List of notable churches

Demographics

As of 2014, according to Pew Research,

Evangelical Protestants Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of the Christian g ...

(includes family denominations under Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Pentecostal and more churches) are the largest religious group at 38%, followed by the unaffiliated at 18%,

Catholicism The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

at 15% and

Mainline Protestants The mainline Protestants (sometimes also known as oldline Protestants) are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States and Canada largely of the theologically liberal or theologically progressive persuasion that contrast in history ...

(includes American Baptist Churches USA, United Methodist Church, ELCA, Presbyterian Church and more) at 14%. As of 2000 the Dallas

Metropolitan Community Church The Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), also known as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC), is an international LGBT-affirming Christian denominations, LGBT-affirming mainline Protestant Christian denomination. The ...

(MCC), an LGBT-friendly church, has 3,000 members, making it the largest MCC in the United States.Anuik, Jonathan (

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). "Metropolitan Community Church." In: Stange, Mary Zeiss, Carol K. Oyster, and Jane E. Sloan (editors). ''Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, Volume 1'' (Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, Mary Zeiss Stange Sage reference). SAGE, February 23, 2011. , 9781412976855. p
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