Indiana

Denominational Groups, 2000

972,885	721,220	17,220	836,009	61,460	3,471,691
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^†
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1,373	343,930	62.0
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	482	160,099	28.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	476	699,188	126.1
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	397	132,970	24.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	345	39,953	7.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	331	68,131	12.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	306	115,560	20.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	277	86,194	15.6
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	238	34,025	6.1
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	221	89,932	16.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	219	109,895	19.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	218	51,907	9.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	210	78,727	14.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	173	60,773	11.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	159	22,569	4.1
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	149	22,300	4.0
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	128	16,167	2.9
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	113	21,060	3.8
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	105	17,388	3.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	87	11,459	2.1
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	85	10,212	1.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	81	21,102	3.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	70	20,901	3.8
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	69	14,009	2.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	48	105,157	19.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	48	n.a.	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	44	5,450	1.0
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	42	1,764	0.3
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	41	4,500	0.8
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	36	5,307	1.0
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	33	2,321	0.4
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	31	20,314	3.7
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	30	3,433	0.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	29	3,085	0.6
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	28	n.a.	n.a.
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	27	2,352	0.4
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	22	3,796	0.7
United Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	20	3,017	0.5
Midwest Congregational Christian Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,206	0.2
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	20	3,890	0.7
Primitive Baptists Associations	Evangelical Protestant	20	478	0.1
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	17	484	0.1
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	17	22,661	4.1
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	17	3,038	0.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	15	19,855	3.6
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	14	5,343	1.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	13	1,328	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,510	0.6
Church of God, Mountain Assembly, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	12	646	0.1
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	12	2,001	0.4
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,777	0.7
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	10	479	0.1
Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches	Evangelical Protestant	10	946	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	10	1,524	0.3
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,417	0.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	9	3,418	0.6
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,494	0.3
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	1,660	0.3
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	824	0.2
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	390	0.1
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	7	n.a.	n.a.
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	506	0.1
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	n.a.	n.a.
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	4	693	0.1
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	267	0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	322	0.1
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Central Baptist Association Ministries	Evangelical Protestant	3	291	0.1
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	2	286	0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	644	0.1
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	61	0.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	220	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	206	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	329	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.0
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	351	0.1
Christ Catholic Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	7	0.0
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	19	0.0
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.0
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	409	0.1
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	59	0.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	83	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	207	0.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	113	0.0
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	1	71	0.0
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	33	0.0
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	140,166	25.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	7,134	2,634,841

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 5,544,159. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (2,634,841) include 47.5% 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.