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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 Association, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +49 24.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -10 -7,197 -44.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant +1 +223 n.a.
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +6 +3,504 54.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +121 n.a.
Catholic Church Catholic -3 +24,202 28.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -47 n.a.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -5,478 -24.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -5 +2,148 10.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -171 -77.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 -2,114 -45.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant -3 +838 91.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +2 +90 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +351 14.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -117 -54.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -5 +496 8.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 -146 -2.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant +2 +272 n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -93 -60.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -2,536 -45.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +863 n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -4 -3,648 -37.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -2 -5,673 -83.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +3 -612 -36.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +2,154 n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +5 +2,440 n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +17 +22,550 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +23 9.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +4 +6,936 226.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +1 +541 7.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province Mainline Protestant -1 -326 -80.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 +3 n.a.
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -70 -48.0%
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America Orthodox +1 +63 n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +318 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -4 -4,370 -22.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +1 -3 -2.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -119 -37.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +2,734 5944.0%
Separate Baptists in Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 -4 -6.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +4 +984 45.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +13 +6,184 74.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +82 8.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -2 -2,561 -31.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -7 -8,023 -20.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +139 278.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +13 +2,344 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +120 35.0%
  Totals: +42 +37,464 +12.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 765,233; in 2000 it was 860,454. The total population changed 7.9%. The adherent totals for 1980 (301,750) represent 39.4% of the 1980 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 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 48 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 48 groups had 290,717 adherents in 1980 and 328,181 adherents in 2000, for a change of 12.9%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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