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^†
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	10,766	7.8
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	351	0.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	72	26,716	19.4
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	34	15,760	11.4
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	206	0.2
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	3	219	0.2
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	60,367	43.7
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	0.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	66	131,959	95.6
Central Baptist Association Ministries	Evangelical Protestant	2	201	0.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	730	0.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	70	0.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	73	38,430	27.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	105	52,478	38.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	124	0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	10	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	43	8,254	6.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,343	1.7
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	9	379	0.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	16	5,601	4.1
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	5	808	0.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	59	16,259	11.8
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	38	0.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	68	12,767	9.3
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	113	0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	138	0.1
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	21	7,576	5.5
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	33	0.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	1,000	0.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	34	12,741	9.2
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.1
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	281	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,836	1.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	31	5,221	3.8
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	6	2,535	1.8
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	19	12,022	8.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	5	457	0.3
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	5	10,000	7.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	409	0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	28	12,659	9.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	317	0.2
Midwest Congregational Christian Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	0.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	409	0.3
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	3	271	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	508	0.4
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	4	467	0.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	83	0.1
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	6	449	0.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	43	24,760	17.9
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	172	0.1
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	3	67	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	452	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	503	0.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	20	4,238	3.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	57	19,585	14.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	1,151	0.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	25	9,845	7.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	188	76,688	55.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	48	6,745	4.9
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	638	0.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,194	599,486

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 1,380,491. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (599,486) include 43.4% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†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.