A comparison of the percentages in this chart with the percentages of adherents reflects a huge disparity in the sizes of congregations in the Mountain West.  For example, 34.4 % of all adherents are Catholic, while only 8.6 % of all the congregations in the region are Catholic.  In the other direction,5.7% of all adherents are Holiness/Wesleyan/Pentecostal while 12.7 of all congregations are classified in this category.  The Mormon statistics are closer: 27% of all adherents are Latter-day Saints and 34.9 % of all congregations are LDS.

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