Lagrange County, Indiana

Denominational Groups, 2000

10,830	3,289		715		20,075
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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	146	5.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	1.2
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	2.4
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	566	19.2
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	2	315	10.7
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	6	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	2.4
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	441	15.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	3.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	64	2.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	583	19.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	329	11.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,923	65.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	175	5.9
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	56	8,400	285.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	271	9.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	2.1
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	0.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	13	2,027	68.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	101	15,605

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 29,477. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (15,605) include 52.9% 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.