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Allen County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

14,866 18,402 50 24,630 1,185 49,340
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 +1 +88 8.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 -9 -2.0%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +2,934 14.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -261 -30.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -479 -26.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -3 -374 -77.0%
Christian Union Evangelical Protestant -1 -160 -72.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -1,021 -85.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 -68 -76.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +88 24.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -71 -7.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -1 +939 80.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +15 6.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant +1 +143 n.a.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +447 15.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 +63 162.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,350 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 -51 -22.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -13 -3.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 -12 -3.0%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -228 -66.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +1 +410 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -1 -611 -33.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +1,307 324.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant -1 +133 14.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -6 -16.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -3 -1,243 -34.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -4 -4,231 -34.0%
Wayne Trail Missionary Baptist Association Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,216 n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +200 n.a.
  Totals: -3 +495 +.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 112,241; in 2000 it was 108,473. The total population changed -1.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (55,202) represent 49.2% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (59,133) include 54.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 30 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 30 groups had 54,810 adherents in 1980 and 55,305 adherents in 2000, for a change of .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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