Arizona

Denominational Groups, 2000

486,247	222,305	11,143	974,883	353,445	3,082,609
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	243	655,664	178.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	469	199,761	54.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	268	162,887	44.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	26	70,850	19.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	113	59,504	16.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	88	54,473	14.9
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	218	49,962	13.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	95	36,129	9.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	32	33,700	9.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	28,851	7.9
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	71	26,780	7.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	60	23,708	6.5
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	30	23,580	6.4
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	71	21,379	5.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	31	17,010	4.6
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	136	15,334	4.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	88	14,991	4.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	50	12,152	3.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	42	12,076	3.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	58	11,777	3.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	25	4,925	1.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	34	4,019	1.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	38	3,719	1.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	40	3,073	0.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	9	2,666	0.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,644	0.7
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	19	2,465	0.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,147	0.6
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	10	1,998	0.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,945	0.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	24	1,808	0.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,673	0.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	22	1,698	0.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,141	0.3
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,154	0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,117	0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	13	979	0.3
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	8	904	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	10	654	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	14	629	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	565	0.2
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	504	0.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	450	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	13	429	0.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	370	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	377	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	8	341	0.1
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	343	0.1
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	288	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	242	0.1
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	2	237	0.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	2	171	0.1
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	2	180	0.1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	130	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	142	0.0
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	124	0.0
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	121	0.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	0.0
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	87	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	40	0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	2	32	0.0
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	54	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	53	0.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	0	0	0.0
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	3	16	0.0
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	11	0.0
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	9	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	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.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	91	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	5	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	30	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	2,766	1,577,427

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 3,665,228. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (1,577,427) include 43.0% 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.