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County Membership Report
Marion County, Indiana
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
Adherence Rate† |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
64 |
37,027 |
46.5 |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
43 |
84,033 |
105.4 |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
36 |
8,687 |
10.9 |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
35 |
22,836 |
28.7 |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
30 |
20,596 |
25.8 |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
29 |
11,483 |
14.4 |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
25 |
9,353 |
11.7 |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
24 |
8,570 |
10.8 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
23 |
17,990 |
22.6 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
19 |
7,553 |
9.5 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
15 |
7,474 |
9.4 |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
15 |
7,477 |
9.4 |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
14 |
1,951 |
2.5 |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
14 |
2,158 |
2.7 |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
13 |
10,229 |
12.8 |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
12 |
7,147 |
9.0 |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
10 |
4,630 |
5.8 |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
9 |
2,968 |
3.7 |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
8 |
1,581 |
2.0 |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
1,230 |
1.5 |
| African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
10,328 |
13.0 |
| Church of Christ, Scientist |
Other Theology |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
6 |
2,535 |
3.2 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
6 |
2,116 |
2.7 |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
5 |
1,263 |
1.6 |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
5 |
6,379 |
8.0 |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
4 |
1,151 |
1.4 |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
192 |
0.2 |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
315 |
0.4 |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
472 |
0.6 |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
3 |
271 |
0.3 |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
3 |
373 |
0.5 |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
172 |
0.2 |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
84 |
0.1 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
638 |
0.8 |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| American Association of Lutheran Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
351 |
0.4 |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
124 |
0.2 |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
32 |
0.0 |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
72 |
0.1 |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
189 |
0.2 |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
317 |
0.4 |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
220 |
0.3 |
| Christian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
70 |
0.1 |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
1,000 |
1.3 |
| Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
33 |
0.0 |
| Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
1 |
409 |
0.5 |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
206 |
0.3 |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
83 |
0.1 |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
283 |
0.4 |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
1 |
138 |
0.2 |
| Black Baptists Estimate |
Evangelical Protestant |
n.a. |
56,403 |
70.8 |
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Totals (Unadjusted)*:
| 523 |
361,192 |
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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.
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