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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -4 -2,234 -19.5%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 +151 209.7%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +5 -224 -2.2%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -85 -41.3%
Catholic Church Catholic -3 +25,104 29.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -472 n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 -3,200 -15.5%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +2,021 8.9%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -74 -59.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 +420 19.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +500 39.6%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +6 7.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +697 32.9%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -88 -46.6%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -2 -1,926 -22.5%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 -2,338 -26.9%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 n.a. n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -77 -55.8%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -1,518 -32.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +2 -137 -13.7%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -1,249 -16.5%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -72 -5.9%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 -483 -30.6%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -95 -3.7%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +5 +15,403 215.5%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 -97 -26.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +3,621 56.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +406 5.4%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant +1 -27 -8.5%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant -1 -189 -69.7%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant 0 -280 -98.9%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -8 -9.6%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +126 65.6%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -4 -2,286 -12.7%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 -11 -6.4%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -18 -8.2%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +2,465 782.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 +186 6.3%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +12 +5,131 54.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +4 0.3%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -1,741 -23.3%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -5 -5,619 -15.2%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +393 20.1%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -173 -27.1%
  Totals: +4 +31,913 +10.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 797,159; in 2000 it was 860,454. The total population changed 7.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (361,192) represent 45.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (346,614) include 40.3% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 43 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 43 groups had 293,566 adherents in 1990 and 325,479 adherents in 2000, for a change of 10.9%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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