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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
Catholic Church Catholic 6 12,146 75.2
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 35 10,497 65.0
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 14 6,034 37.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 5 3,489 21.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 8 3,140 19.4
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 3 3,071 19.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 4 2,450 15.2
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 12 2,377 14.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 7 1,880 11.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 1,820 11.3
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 9 1,441 8.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 4 1,214 7.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 4 1,109 6.9
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 3 944 5.8
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 845 5.2
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 4 820 5.1
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 2 737 4.6
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 3 500 3.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 449 2.8
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 2 432 2.7
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 2 339 2.1
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 1 325 2.0
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 320 2.0
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 3 282 1.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 4 185 1.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 164 1.0
Church of the United Brethren in Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 157 1.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The Evangelical Protestant 1 113 0.7
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 112 0.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 105 0.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 100 0.6
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant 1 88 0.5
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 51 0.3
Christian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 1 50 0.3
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 2 49 0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 48 0.3
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 2 47 0.3
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 41 0.3
Evangelical Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant 1 31 0.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 11 0.1
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America Evangelical Protestant 2 n.a. n.a.
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 163 58,013  
The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 161,572. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (58,013) include 35.9% 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.