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Brethren Church (Ashland, Ohio) (1882) |
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| The Brethren Church (Ashland, Ohio) was founded in 1882 by Henry R. Holsinger and former members of the Church of the Brethren. During the 1930s, a group supportive of a dispensational fundamentalist doctrinal position left the church to found the National Fellowship of Brethren Churches, now the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches. |
Membership Data
| Year | Clergy | Churches | Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 305 | 206 | 25,797 |
| 1929 | 295 | 170 | 27,847 |
| 1935 | 204 | 168 | 27,520 |
| 1937 | - | 176 | 30,426 |
| 1952 | 147 | 108 | 18,737 |
| 1953 | 158 | 109 | 18,610 |
| 1954 | 159 | 98 | 18,979 |
| 1955 | 160 | 107 | 18,672 |
| 1956 | 159 | 110 | 18,697 |
| 1957 | 156 | 108 | 19,474 |
| 1958 | 156 | 108 | 19,474 |
| 1959 | 151 | 114 | 18,207 |
| 1962 | 145 | 116 | 18,445 |
| 1964 | 149 | 120 | 18,013 |
| 1969 | 152 | 119 | 17,329 |
| 1970 | 130 | 119 | 17,114 |
| 1971 | 130 | 119 | 16,357 |
| 1974 | 170 | 119 | 16,279 |
| 1975 | 156 | 121 | 16,065 |
| 1976 | 164 | 122 | 15,920 |
| 1977 | 137 | 124 | 15,619 |
| 1978 | 160 | 122 | 15,082 |
| 1982 | 179 | 125 | 14,857 |
| 1983 | 175 | 124 | 14,410 |
| 1984 | - | 122 | 14,229 |
| 1988 | 173 | 124 | 14,753 |
| 1989 | 176 | 126 | 13,155 |
| 1990 | 175 | 124 | 13,060 |
| 1991 | 178 | 124 | 13,322 |
| 1992 | 177 | 124 | 13,132 |
| 1993 | 182 | 121 | 13,117 |
| 1994 | 183 | 121 | 13,028 |
| 1995 | 181 | 121 | 13,578 |
| 1996 | 181 | 119 | 13,746 |
| 1997 | 186 | 117 | 13,856 |
| 1998 | 175 | 116 | 13,494 |
| 1999 | 180 | 118 | 13,227 |
| 2000 | 171 | 119 | 13,096 |
| 2001 | 179 | 119 | 10,381 |
| 2002 | 184 | 117 | 10,287 |
| 2003 | 202 | 115 | 10,240 |
| 2004 | 202 | 115 | 10,240 |
| 2006 | 202 | 119 | 10,387 |
| 2008 | 181 | 116 | 10,106 |
| 2009 | 219 | 112 | 10,227 |
Data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. The National Council of Churches' data collection was discontinued after the 2012 Yearbook was published, and has been resumed by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). The tables and graphs will be updated when the new collection is available. See the Yearbook of Churches. Denomination descriptions provided by Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR). [More information on data sources]
