Hancock County, Maine

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,123	6,565		6,292	447	37,364
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^†
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	136	2.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	16	1,864	39.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	2	188	4.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	8	3,446	73.4
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	4	140	3.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	129	2.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	2	183	3.9
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	21	0.5
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	3	347	7.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	8	1,210	25.8
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	153	3.3
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	95	2.0
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.8
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	184	3.9
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	21	2,113	45.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	17	1,176	25.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	97	11,422

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 46,948. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (11,422) include 24.3% 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.