Flagstaff, AZ-UT MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

11,403	4,492		8,267	15,994	82,210
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	+10	+3,859	36.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+5	-563	-34.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+600	74.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+232	n.a.
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-90	-11.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+2	+552	97.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+2	-5,535	-40.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	+2	+837	615.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+87	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,207	1068.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+180	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+109	92.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+330	n.a.
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	+130	11.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-69	-26.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-90	-20.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+1	+500	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1	3.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+126	332.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	-419	-15.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+36	69.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	+13	52.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+85	106.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-41	-14.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-328	-43.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+28	34.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+77	42.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+32	42.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-43	-10.0%
	Totals:	+39	+1,843	+5.2%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 79,032; in 2000 it was 122,366. The total population changed 20.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (35,837) represent 45.3% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (40,156) include 32.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 29 groups had 35,712 adherents in 1980 and 37,555 adherents in 2000, for a change of 5.2%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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