Marion County, Indiana

Denominational Groups, 2000

126,633	90,773	3,661	109,137	16,410	513,840
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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	10,328	13.0
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	351	0.4
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	29	11,483	14.4
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	13	10,229	12.8
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	206	0.3
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	56,403	70.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	43	84,033	105.4
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	472	0.6
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	30	20,596	25.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	35	22,836	28.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	124	0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	6	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,158	2.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,263	1.6
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	84	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	6	2,116	2.7
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	189	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	24	8,570	10.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	36	8,687	10.9
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	138	0.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	10	4,630	5.8
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	33	0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,000	1.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	19	7,553	9.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,230	1.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	8	1,581	2.0
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,535	3.2
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	12	7,147	9.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	3	373	0.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	5	6,379	8.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	409	0.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	15	7,474	9.4
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	317	0.4
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.0
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	3	271	0.3
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	283	0.4
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	83	0.1
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.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	3	192	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	23	17,990	22.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	2	172	0.2
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	220	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	315	0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	2,968	3.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	25	9,353	11.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	1,151	1.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	15	7,477	9.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	64	37,027	46.5
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,951	2.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	638	0.8
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	523	361,192

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 797,159. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (361,192) include 45.3% 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.