Penobscot County, Maine

Denominational Groups, 2000

5,523	12,363	543	28,136	2,244	96,110
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	22	31,639	230.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	22	5,292	38.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	22	5,231	38.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	18	3,330	24.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	7	2,247	16.4
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,322	9.7
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	949	6.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	4	793	5.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	2	500	3.7
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	5	467	3.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	329	2.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	272	2.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	4	204	1.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	178	1.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	164	1.2
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	135	1.0
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	0.8
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	111	0.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	90	0.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	33	0.2
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	29	0.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	131	53,427

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 137,015. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (53,427) include 39.0% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†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.