Fort Wayne, IN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

103,055	66,515	877	78,426	3,117	250,151
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	36	63,920	143.7
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	118	38,141	85.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	44	34,785	78.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	33	18,133	40.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	16	9,533	21.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	20	9,492	21.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	32	7,919	17.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	28	6,251	14.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	17	5,576	12.5
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	13	4,641	10.4
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	26	4,220	9.5
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	11	4,076	9.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	21	4,075	9.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	19	3,638	8.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	2,246	5.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,473	3.3
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,470	3.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,292	2.9
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,221	2.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,092	2.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	782	1.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	1	647	1.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	2	507	1.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	462	1.0
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	350	0.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	285	0.6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	270	0.6
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	3	239	0.5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	3	191	0.4
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	152	0.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	83	0.2
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	0.2
Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.1
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	0.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	508	227,376

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 444,772. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (227,376) include 51.1% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.