Indianapolis, IN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

252,962	180,979	3,661	192,017	21,781	956,086
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	66	120,908	92.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	194	80,619	61.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	119	51,445	39.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	77	42,717	32.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	79	32,497	24.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	43	28,595	21.9
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	38	18,153	13.9
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	48	15,114	11.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	65	14,873	11.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	35	14,364	11.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	26	11,641	8.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	10,766	8.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	27	10,644	8.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	59	9,695	7.4
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	27	8,882	6.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	21	8,478	6.5
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	36	7,212	5.5
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	10	7,146	5.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	11	4,553	3.5
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	3,647	2.8
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	3,064	2.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,908	1.5
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,129	0.9
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	1,073	0.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	863	0.7
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	581	0.4
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	450	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	450	0.3
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	440	0.3
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	3	408	0.3
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	370	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	345	0.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	321	0.3
Separate Baptists in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	5	309	0.2
Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	2	295	0.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	265	0.2
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	254	0.2
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	221	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	164	0.1
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	154	0.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	145	0.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	59	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	52	0.0
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	50	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	0.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,088	515,359

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 1,305,911. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (515,359) include 39.5% 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.