Kennebec County, Maine

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,495	11,841		25,291	1,812	74,675
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
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+136	323.8%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+195	243.8%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+147	147.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	0	+454	82.7%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+858	59.3%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+77	39.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+35	35.7%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+27	26.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+142	25.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+40	15.5%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	0	+6	13.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+71	12.0%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+15	5.2%
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+2	4.1%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	0	0	0.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-10	-4.6%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-441	-10.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-9	-14.5%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	-1	-81	-16.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-11	-16.4%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-367	-18.7%
Catholic Church	Catholic	-4	-7,279	-22.3%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	-1,118	-27.7%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	-460	-57.5%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	-4	-7,571	-15.4%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 115,904; in 2000 it was 117,114. The total population changed 1.0%. The adherent totals for 1990 (49,846) represent 43.0% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (42,439) include 36.2% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 25 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 25 groups had 49,133 adherents in 1990 and 41,562 adherents in 2000, for a change of -15.4%

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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