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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	100	352,388	157.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	273	120,121	53.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	129	100,597	44.9
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	17	50,000	22.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	55	39,486	17.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	56	38,551	17.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	98	32,673	14.6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	28	28,150	12.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	50	21,582	9.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	20,880	9.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	18	16,495	7.4
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	32	15,811	7.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	29	15,590	7.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	42	14,978	6.7
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	17	12,432	5.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	27	10,331	4.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	57	9,292	4.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	32	9,011	4.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	27	6,455	2.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	17	5,523	2.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	12	3,075	1.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,901	1.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	23	2,322	1.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	2,066	0.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,866	0.8
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,564	0.7
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,536	0.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	5	1,282	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,257	0.6
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,154	0.5
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,132	0.5
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	7	1,108	0.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,012	0.5
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	11	869	0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	12	801	0.4
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	769	0.3
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	718	0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	565	0.3
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	504	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	7	488	0.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	463	0.2
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	377	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	367	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	350	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	5	337	0.2
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	310	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	6	255	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	2	237	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	147	0.1
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	165	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	142	0.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	136	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	121	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	87	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.0
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	33	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	3	16	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	0	0.0
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	11	0.0
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	0.0
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	40	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	13	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,414	951,156

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,238,480. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (951,156) include 42.5% 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.