Top 15 Reporting Religious Bodies Bangor, ME (NECMA)
Church, Christian, or Religious Body	Adherents (and rank)						Congregations
	in 2000			in 1990			in 2000	in 1990
Catholic Church, The	28,136	(1)		24,062	(1)		18	21
United Methodist Church, The	4,819	(2)		5,132	(2)		19	20
United Church of Christ	2,458	(3)		2,988	(4)		14	15
American Baptist Churches in the USA	2,257	(4)		3,785	(3)		14	16
Episcopal Church	1,227	(5)		1,265	(5)		6	6
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	1,200	(6)		400	(14)		1	1
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	1,049	(7)		629	(11)		6	3
Jewish Estimate	1,000	(8)		1,250	(6)		3	3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	789	(9)		725	(9)		3	2
Assemblies of God	750	(10)		724	(10)		5	5
Conservative Baptist Association of America	741	(11)		NR			5	5
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	587	(12)		488	(12)		8	6
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	543	(13)		NR			1	1
Wesleyan Church, The	510	(14)		101	(21)		2	2
Church of the Nazarene	493	(15)		803	(8)		4	4

Metropolitan Population, 2000 Census:		144,919
Percent of Population Claimed by Reporting Groups:		33.7%

National Average: 50.2% claimed

Reporting Groups (149 possible):	33	(28 of 133 in 1990)
Total Reported Adherents:	48,809	(45,421 in 1990)
Total Reported Congregations:	132	(131 in 1990)

The metro area included 1 county (or equivalent) at the time of the 2000 census:
	Penobscot County, ME
	The newly published book Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 includes a CD that allows users to determine such lists for any selected group of counties.
Source:	Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000 Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990
	Both studies, copyrighted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, are published by the Glenmary Research Center, Nashville, Tenn. More information is available at www.glenmary.org/grc.