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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	+13	+209,825	59.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+117	+39,902	33.2%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+27,681	84.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+4	+12,346	31.3%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+3	+10,000	20.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+8,973	59.9%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+8,585	52.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+6,263	498.2%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+2,701	30.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+2,363	101.8%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,991	106.7%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,883	244.9%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,731	10.9%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,621	10.4%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,602	144.6%
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	+1	+1,568	n.a.
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+673	58.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	+554	18.0%
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+467	1167.5%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	+429	4.2%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+298	5.4%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+256	55.3%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+239	93.7%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+206	56.1%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	-2	+174	21.7%
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+133	56.1%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+133	4.6%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+99	6.4%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+57	172.7%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+54	5.3%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+19	35.2%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	+17	3.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	0	-21	-17.4%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	0	-34	-25.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	-36	-10.3%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	0	-40	-12.9%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-54	-4.8%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-67	-19.9%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-140	-28.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-2	-158	-2.4%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-1	-162	-12.6%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-368	-17.8%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-395	-78.4%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-7	-482	-30.8%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-566	-65.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-816	-8.8%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-1,733	-8.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-4,420	-15.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-4,631	-12.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	-4,772	-38.4%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+24	-16,868	-16.8%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+3	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
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.
	Totals:	+208	+307,080	+33.1%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 2,238,480; in 2000 it was 3,251,876. The total population changed 45.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (951,156) represent 42.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (1,278,464) include 39.3% 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 928,440 adherents in 1990 and 1,235,520 adherents in 2000, for a change of 33.1%

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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