Androscoggin County, Maine

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,172	5,764	366	39,058	1,314	52,119
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	14	35,130	333.8
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	7	2,187	20.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	8	2,167	20.6
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	5	989	9.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	3	872	8.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	5	779	7.4
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	710	6.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	631	6.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	2	500	4.8
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	445	4.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	3	428	4.1
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	1	410	3.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	263	2.5
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	1	218	2.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	200	1.9
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	3	190	1.8
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	144	1.4
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	128	1.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	122	1.2
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	0.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	71	46,620

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 105,259. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (46,620) include 44.3% 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.