Allen County, Indiana

Denominational Groups, 2000

64,193	41,049	877	57,680	2,741	165,309
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	37	17,434	58.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	29	25,455	84.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	24	51,000	169.5
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	21	13,653	45.4
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	4,225	14.0
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,650	5.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,667	5.5
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,702	5.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	9	4,171	13.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	8	2,698	9.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	8	4,664	15.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	7	727	2.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	990	3.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	5	3,612	12.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,099	7.0
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	840	2.8
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	4	963	3.2
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	4	478	1.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,158	3.9
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	715	2.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	3	1,485	4.9
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	964	3.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	1,657	5.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	57	0.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	910	3.0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	390	1.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	976	3.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	2	317	1.1
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	6,100	20.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	656	2.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	474	1.6
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	252	0.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	336	1.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	194	0.6
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	47	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	271	0.9
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	149	0.5
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.1
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
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.
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	1	12	0.0
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	0.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	10,273	34.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	268	165,657

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 300,836. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (165,657) include 55.1% 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.