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
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+117	+39,902	33.2%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+24	-16,868	-16.8%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+13	+27,681	84.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+13	+209,825	59.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+9	+2,363	101.8%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+2,701	30.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+6,263	498.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+1,602	144.6%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+7	+133	4.6%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+239	93.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+4	+12,346	31.3%
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%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+99	6.4%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+1,883	244.9%
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%
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	+256	55.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,991	106.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,731	10.9%
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.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+298	5.4%
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	+1,621	10.4%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-4,420	-15.7%
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	-1,733	-8.0%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-368	-17.8%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-4,631	-12.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-54	-4.8%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-395	-78.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-816	-8.8%
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%
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	-158	-2.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-3	+554	18.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+8,973	59.9%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	-3	+206	56.1%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-566	-65.1%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-7	-482	-30.8%
	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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