Apache County, Arizona

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,584	1,909		19,965	9,162	34,803
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	Adherence Rate^†
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	20	8,486	137.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	19	6,097	99.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,261	36.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	10	924	15.0
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	8	710	11.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	808	13.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	352	5.7
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	179	2.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	3	128	2.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	110	1.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	40	0.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	38	0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	1.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	180	2.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	1.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.2
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1	48	0.8
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	98	20,593

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 61,591. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (20,593) include 33.4% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.