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Maricopa County, Arizona

Denominational Groups, 2000

306,789 145,502 9,766 530,135 228,417 1,851,540
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 % Change
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +115 +38,900 33.8%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +24 -14,409 -15.9%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +10 +27,286 89.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +8 +2,837 33.4%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +7 +2,304 106.5%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,602 144.6%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +7 +6,100 506.2%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +6 +119 4.1%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +5 +239 113.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +5 +12,272 31.7%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +4 -7 -0.5%
Catholic Church Catholic +3 +204,697 62.9%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +3 n.a. n.a.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant +3 +467 1167.5%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +3 +10,000 20.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,883 244.9%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +2 +54 5.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 +2,020 110.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +2 +19 35.2%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 +429 4.2%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses Orthodox +1 +1,568 n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +248 55.6%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 -3,420 -12.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,809 12.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses Orthodox +1 n.a. n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +340 46.1%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +224 4.2%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 -40 -12.9%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene) Evangelical Protestant 0 +133 56.1%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 +57 172.7%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant 0 -34 -25.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -36 -10.3%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 +1,653 10.9%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +250 105.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +673 58.3%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant 0 -21 -17.4%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +17 3.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -1,289 -6.6%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -368 -17.8%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -4,727 -12.6%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 +640 21.4%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant -1 -395 -78.4%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant -1 -140 -28.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -162 -12.6%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -4,772 -38.4%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -2 -877 -10.2%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -2 +174 21.7%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant -2 -67 -19.9%
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -2 +8,585 52.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant -2 -136 -2.2%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 +8,049 57.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant -3 -554 -64.6%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -7 -482 -30.8%
  Totals: +199 +303,712 +34.7%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 2,122,101; in 2000 it was 3,072,149. The total population changed 44.8%. The adherent totals for 1990 (896,620) represent 42.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,220,609) include 39.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 51 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 51 groups had 874,879 adherents in 1990 and 1,178,591 adherents in 2000, for a change of 34.7%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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