The present state — New Carlisle's religious landscape as of November 2026

As of November 2026

Six congregations and a monastery are seated in the town and township today, two more stand on the boundary, and three historic seats are gone. In town and in Olive Township: New Carlisle United Methodist Church, the Methodist line of 1849 and 1853, worships at 300 E. Compton Street, Pastor Kalvin Morrison at directory strength, its 1859 brick predecessor demolished in 2024 and its ground now Colfax Park; Olive Chapel, the Christians of 1841, gathers Sundays at 8:30 and 10:30 AM at 32987 IN-2 in a restored space under a self-declared "New Era"; Community Christian Church stands at 201 W. Michigan Street, Pastor Rick Jones at directory strength, the town's Christian Church name carried from 1868 with the continuity undocumented; St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Catholic since 1884, serves Terre Coupee and New Carlisle from 55756 Tulip Road under Fr. Brian Carpenter, pastor since September 2025, in the Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend under Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades; New Carlisle Wesleyan Church gathers Sundays at 10:00 AM at 32645 Early Road, its own site live against an older aggregator's "Closed" flag; and the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God, consecrated 1994, keeps its liturgies at 32787 Early Road under Bishop Longin of New Gračanica — Midwest America. On the boundary: Hudson Lake Mennonite Church, dedicated 1953, at 7503 N. Walker Road in LaPorte County under co-pastors Marcella Hershberger and Marcia Carpenter as of the June 2024 encyclopedia article; and St. John Kanty at Rolling Prairie, Diocese of Gary. Gone, and printed so they are not forgotten: the Hamilton Methodist church, whose society of 1830 was the county's first, its building gone and its 1830 cemetery and 1965 marker standing; St. Mary's Episcopal, 1885 to after 1907, whose building worships on — bricked over — in East Chicago, and whose register rests in the diocesan archives; the Presbyterian church the 1858–59 gazetteer names, otherwise unrecovered; and the "old Mormon Temple" of Mrs. Pidge's memory, a building name of about 1849 whose congregation, if it had one here, no record reached names. The diocesan and conference heads of the town's bodies as of this writing: Bishop Tracy S. Malone for the United Methodists of the Indiana Conference; Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades for the Catholics of Fort Wayne–South Bend; and the Rt. Rev. Dr. Douglas E. Sparks for the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana, St. Mary's diocese, with his resignation announced for August 31, 2027.

Sources

1. The congregations' own sites and the denominational records cited in the articles above, each at the strength there stated, all as of November 2026.