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South Bend, IN MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

24,644 22,376 1,156 63,209 4,765 149,409
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 -1 -296 -49.2%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 -1 -2.1%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,280 76.8%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) Evangelical Protestant -1 -62 -11.9%
Catholic Church Catholic 0 +486 0.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -1 +59 4.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +3 +611 33.3%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +252 92.6%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant -1 -144 -40.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant +1 +200 73.3%
Church of God General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -30 -22.2%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +4 9.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +2 +475 75.3%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant +1 -25 -2.9%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 +148 19.5%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +182 41.2%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -48 -4.4%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +113 18.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 +399 10.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -1 -1,650 -73.3%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -2 +50 2.8%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -202 -8.0%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -2 -26 -9.9%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant -4 -491 -19.7%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +54 32.9%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +14 35.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -773 -20.6%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +87 38.3%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +4 +296 32.8%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +1 +400 53.1%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +18 15.4%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -316 -16.2%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -1,548 -13.2%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -14 -2.5%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +81 25.9%
  Totals: 0 -417 -.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 247,052; in 2000 it was 265,559. The total population changed 7.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (119,120) represent 48.2% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (116,150) include 43.7% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 36 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 36 groups had 110,021 adherents in 1990 and 109,604 adherents in 2000, for a change of -.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 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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