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State Membership Report
Indiana
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
% Change |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
-14 |
+136,821 |
19.6% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+103 |
+45,309 |
28.3% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+39 |
+8,892 |
7.7% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
+8,318 |
184.8% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
+21 |
+7,408 |
35.4% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
+33 |
+5,041 |
9.7% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-11 |
+4,749 |
14.0% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+3,352 |
32.8% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+9 |
+2,949 |
84.0% |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+2,574 |
18.4% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
+11 |
+1,649 |
42.4% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+1,627 |
1.5% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+926 |
17.3% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-4 |
+709 |
23.0% |
| American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church |
Orthodox |
+2 |
+544 |
190.2% |
| Churches of God, General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+405 |
10.7% |
| Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+333 |
35.2% |
| Evangelical Mennonite Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+293 |
20.7% |
| Evangelical Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+189 |
91.3% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+182 |
1.6% |
| Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+178 |
4.7% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+6 |
+178 |
8.9% |
| Baptist Missionary Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+129 |
40.1% |
| International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+105 |
172.1% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
+92 |
1.7% |
| Brethren In Christ Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+51 |
19.1% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
+36 |
2.2% |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
+1 |
+19 |
0.6% |
| International Pentecostal Church of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+16 |
27.1% |
| Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-4 |
-16.7% |
| Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-8 |
-42.1% |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-8 |
-9.6% |
| Primitive Methodist Church in the USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-8 |
-11.6% |
| Enterprise Baptists Association |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-22 |
-31.0% |
| Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-23 |
-11.2% |
| Conservative Congregational Christian Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-43 |
-6.7% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
-5 |
-78 |
-3.4% |
| Church of God General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-85 |
-21.8% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
-1 |
-102 |
-3.4% |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
-2 |
-109 |
-8.2% |
| Moravian Church in America--Northern Province |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-169 |
-24.4% |
| Midwest Congregational Christian Fellowship |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-220 |
-18.2% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
-10 |
-341 |
-19.3% |
| National Association of Congregational Christian Churches |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-362 |
-23.8% |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
-476 |
-57.8% |
| Cumberland Presbyterian Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-540 |
-36.1% |
| Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-675 |
-12.7% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-783 |
-3.5% |
| Church of the Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
-6 |
-2,184 |
-12.6% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-2,273 |
-96.6% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
-4 |
-2,314 |
-11.4% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
+5 |
-2,706 |
-12.8% |
| Old Order Amish Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
+95 |
-3,123 |
-14.0% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-4,026 |
-10.1% |
| Friends (Quakers) |
Mainline Protestant |
+10 |
-5,098 |
-31.5% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-44 |
-5,176 |
-24.6% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
-36 |
-5,853 |
-6.5% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-12 |
-5,955 |
-7.6% |
| Independent, Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
-6,889 |
-34.7% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
-30 |
-8,034 |
-11.8% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-8 |
-9,596 |
-15.8% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
-21 |
-14,780 |
-17.1% |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
-35 |
-17,869 |
-13.4% |
| Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
+7 |
-53,537 |
-50.9% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-87 |
-55,622 |
-16.2% |
| Conservative Baptist Association of America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America |
Orthodox |
-1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses |
Orthodox |
+1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA |
Orthodox |
+3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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Totals:
+17
| +23,983 |
+1.0% |
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The population of these 92 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 5,544,159; in 2000 it was 6,080,485. The total population changed 9.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (2,634,841) represent 47.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (2,608,794) include 42.9% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 65 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 65 groups had 2,461,129 adherents in 1990 and 2,485,112 adherents in 2000, for a change of 1.0%
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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