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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -2 -1,994 -50.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +4 -390 -17.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -2 +2,738 15.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +77 385.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -1,395 -40.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 +993 33.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 -54 -9.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -370 -67.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 -32 -48.0%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -22 -36.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +1 +603 78.0%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 -20 -7.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant -2 -147 -13.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 -101 -12.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant +1 +87 n.a.
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Evangelical Protestant +1 +412 n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -561 -54.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +775 542.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -1,196 -46.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -321 -90.0%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant 0 +137 249.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 0 -7 -8.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology +1 +299 119.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +599 28.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +3 +337 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -1,383 -20.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +5 1.0%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +61 42.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -55 -19.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +3 +1,174 74.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +76 64.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -416 -26.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -5 -3,962 -32.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,172 n.a.
  Totals: +16 +-2,881 -4.4%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 153,247; in 2000 it was 182,821. The total population changed 13.2%. The adherent totals for 1980 (65,720) represent 42.9% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (68,304) include 37.4% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 34 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 34 groups had 65,610 adherents in 1980 and 62,729 adherents in 2000, for a change of -4.4%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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