page_title: Tyler, Texas
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Tyler, Texas / Demographics / Religion
caption_attribution_description: English: The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Tyler, Texas.
context_page_description: Tyler is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the largest city and county seat of Smith County. It is also the largest city in Northeast Texas. With a 2019 census-estimated population of 106,985, Tyler was the thirty-eighth most populous city in Texas and 292nd in the United States. It is the principal city of the Tyler metropolitan statistical area, which is the 199th most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. and 16th in Texas after Waco and the College Station–Bryan areas, with a population of 230,221 in 2018.
  The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States. In 1985, the international Adopt-a-Highway movement originated in Tyler. After appeals by local Texas Department of Transportation officials, the local Civitan International chapter adopted a two-mile stretch of U.S. Route 69 to maintain. Drivers and other motorists traveling on this segment of U.S. 69 will notice brown road signs that read, "First Adopt-A-Highway in the World".
  Tyler is known as the "Rose Capital of America", a nickname it earned from a long history of rose production, cultivation, and processing.
context_section_description: Sperling's BestPlaces determined 73.2% of Tylerites and the surrounding area identify as religious as of 2020. As part of the Bible Belt, Protestant Christianity is the largest religious group, followed by the Roman Catholic Christianity. 31.1% of Tylerite Christians are Baptist, primarily affiliated with the Texas Baptists, Southern Baptist Convention, National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc, National Baptist Convention of America, and Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship. The Catholic community of Tyler and its metropolitan area are primarily served by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tyler. Following, 6.6% of the population were Methodists, mainly affiliated with the United Methodist Church and African Methodist Episcopal Church.
  Pentecostals form the fourth-largest Christian group in Tyler (5.2%) and the largest Pentecostal bodies within the area are Assemblies of God USA and the United Pentecostal Church. 1.2% are Latter-day Saints. 0.9% identified as Anglicans or Episcopalians, 0.7% Presbyterian, and 0.6% Lutheran. 13.6% of Tylerites are of another Christian faith including the Eastern Orthodox Church and Jehovah's Witnesses.
  The Anglican or Episcopalian community are divided between the Episcopal Church in the United States and Anglican Church in North America. The Episcopal Church USA-affiliated Episcopal Diocese of Dallas has congregations in Tyler. The Anglican Church in North America also has congregations in Tyler and its metropolitan area. The Diocese of Mid-America is the ACNA's diocese in Tyler, consisting of one church. This diocese is also a member of the Reformed Episcopal Church.
  Presbyterian and Lutheran bodies operating in the area include the Presbyterian Church (USA) and Presbyterian Church in America, and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and North American Lutheran Church. The Eastern Orthodox community is served by the Orthodox Church in America's Diocese of the South.
  The oldest continuously active church in Greater Tyler is the historic over 152 year old New Harmony Baptist Church, located about 10 miles outside of the city of Tyler.
  St. Joseph the Worker Parish, one of the few churches in the United States dedicated to the exclusive use of the Traditional Latin Mass, is another continuously active church. It is staffed by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. The city also is the home of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a century-old church recently renovated and declared a historic and heritage site by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tyler. The Saint Peter Claver Parish, located in central Tyler, is the second largest Catholic church in Tyler and was dedicated to St. Peter Claver, a Franciscan priest that assisted the black slaves in Brazil during the slave trade to South America.
  Per Sperling's BestPlaces, approximately 0.1% affiliate with Judaism compared to the state average of 0.2%. 0.4% of the area identify as Muslims. The area's Islamic community is affiliated with the East Texas Islamic Society.
caption: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
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