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	% Change
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+332	198.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+265	171.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+246	123.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+420	63.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+3	+46	28.0%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-5	+229	1.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-2	-240	-11.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	-30	-12.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-112	-16.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-75	-19.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-1	-44	-19.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-3	-441	-21.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-259	-23.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-154	-27.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-351	-43.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+366	n.a.
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+520	n.a.
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+5	n.a.
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+96	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+584	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+109	n.a.
	Totals:	+5	+1,512	+3.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 99,657; in 2000 it was 103,793. The total population changed -1.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (48,930) represent 49.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (51,674) include 49.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 21 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 21 groups had 48,631 adherents in 1980 and 50,143 adherents in 2000, for a change of 3.1%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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