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Lafayette, IN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

22,320 21,898 207 21,009 2,870 114,517
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 8 3,955 25.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 2,343 15.3
Catholic Church Catholic 9 18,271 119.2
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 20 0.1
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 3,532 23.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 10 2,995 19.5
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 577 3.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 555 3.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 66 0.4
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 62 0.4
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 3 777 5.1
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 304 2.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 4 1,140 7.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 827 5.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 1,046 6.8
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 143 0.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 6 2,624 17.1
Evangelical Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.4
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 357 2.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 55 0.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 87 0.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 251 1.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 2,121 13.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 13 6,744 44.0
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 544 3.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 146 1.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 283 1.9
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 10 1,591 10.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 118 0.8
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 4 1,597 10.4
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 37 12,479 81.4
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 144 65,720  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 153,247. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (65,720) include 42.9% 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.