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	38	78,426	156.2
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	2,415	4.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	16	4,334	8.6
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	110	0.2
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	3	199	0.4
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	42	0.1
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	819	1.6
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	26	9,583	19.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	144	0.3
Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	1	46	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,163	4.3
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	5	693	1.4
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	2	91	0.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,585	5.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	26	6,047	12.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,267	2.5
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,292	4.6
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	95	0.2
Conservative Mennonite Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	145	0.3
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,345	2.7
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	396	0.8
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	100	0.2
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	4,146	8.3
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	2,650	5.3
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	3,600	7.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	0.1
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	0.1
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	115	0.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	50	33,084	65.9
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	7	2,508	5.0
Mennonite; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	3	204	0.4
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	20	6,429	12.8
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	5	15	0.0
New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches and other Fundamental Baptist Associations/Fellowships	Evangelical Protestant	3	755	1.5
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	48	3,762	7.5
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	60	0.1
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	2,087	4.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	510	1.0
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,900	7.8
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	166	0.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,554	7.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	384	0.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	16	6,135	12.2
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	6	2,739	5.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	5	1,642	3.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	30	15,397	30.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	4	267	0.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	13	5,403	10.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	221	0.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	18	6,603	13.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	105	28,108	56.0
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, The	Orthodox	1	196	0.4
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	366	0.7
Orthodox Church in America: Bulgarian Diocese	Orthodox	1	285	0.6
Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	30	0.1
Bahá'í	Other Theology	1	81	0.2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	4	1,250	2.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	950	1.9
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	1	609	1.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	227	0.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	609	251,990
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		293,429

The population of these 6 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 456,281; in 2000 it was 502,141. The total population changed 10.1%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (251,990) include 50.2% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (293,429) include 58.4% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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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