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	% Change
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+181	129.3%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+111	116.8%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+2	+2,846	82.6%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+121	79.1%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+73	56.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+42	22.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+26	14.1%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	-90	-4.8%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-88	-7.3%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	-156	-7.4%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-102	-8.7%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-48	-26.2%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	-2	-189	-54.5%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-16	-76.2%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+1	+2,711	+24.1%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 46,948; in 2000 it was 51,791. The total population changed 10.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (11,422) represent 24.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (14,427) include 27.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 14 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 14 groups had 11,249 adherents in 1990 and 13,960 adherents in 2000, for a change of 24.1%

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 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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