Phoenix-Mesa, AZ MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

322,390	149,336	9,766	562,213	234,759	1,973,412
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^†
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	400	0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	26	10,447	6.5
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	184	0.1
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	81	10,915	6.8
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	381	0.2
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	135	0.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	78	259,810	162.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	326	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	600	0.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	3,199	2.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,144	1.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	801	0.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,721	1.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	32	2,220	1.4
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	521	0.3
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	158	77,200	48.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	444	0.3
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	89	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	114	0.1
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	27	6,914	4.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	59	7,537	4.7
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	30	8,615	5.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	29	13,245	8.3
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	304	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	88	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	40	27,265	17.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	245	0.2
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	3	10	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,430	1.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	221	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	9	853	0.5
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	557	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	8	5,923	3.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	23	11,155	7.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,058	0.7
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	177	0.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	46	20,533	12.8
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	101	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	2,104	1.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	5,556	3.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	22	5,073	3.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	111	67,612	42.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	912	0.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	15	12,922	8.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	45	33,385	20.9
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	300	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,001	2.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	982	611,926

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,599,970. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (611,926) include 38.2% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.