STANDISH – A group of volunteers assembled at Saint Joseph’s College in Standish on Monday dethroned the world’s pie-making champion.

On May 26, 2013, Edgar Hensel set the world record for “longest line of pies” when he assembled a 1,477-pie line in Lower Saxony, Germany. Hensel’s pie line measured 907 feet, 1.8 inches, according to Guinness World Records.

On Monday, it took 135 volunteers eight hours and 10 minutes to assemble and line up a 1,161-foot line of 1,548 apple pies. The volunteers, participating in the school’s sixth annual Thanksgiving Pie Bake-Off, outstripped Hensel’s record by 71 pies and 254 feet.

According to Stuart Leckie, the general manager of the college’s food service provider, Pearson’s Cafe?, as well as the organizer of the bake-off, the record-breaking effort required 1,000 pounds of butter, 10,000 apples and 300 pounds of sugar.

“It’s just been a fun day,” Leckie said. “It’s been a lot more tedious than I expected, but everybody’s teamed together.”

“It was a little bit more challenging than I thought to get it done,” he added.

Donna Morton of Casco spent about three hours rolling dough for the pies on Monday evening. Morton described the division of labor among the volunteers at the Pearson’s Cafe? cafeteria.

“We’ve got the dough makers, the apple cutters, the dough rollers, and the stuffers,” she said.

Last year, Leckie sent an application to the London-based organization, Guinness World Records, to declare his intentions to break the world’s “longest line of pies” record. The application was accepted.

On Tuesday, two witnesses watched the event unfold, while volunteers videotaped and photographed the proceedings, in order to provide evidence of the record-breaking effort to the Guinness judges.

Don Morrison, the operations manager at Wayside Food Programs in Portland, said he was impressed by the scale of the cooperative effort, the likes of which he had never seen before.

“It’s impressive to see what many hands together can do,” Morrison said.

Wayside Food Programs is distributing the pies to food pantries across Cumberland County, Morrison said. The pies will go to Catherine’s Cupboard in Standish, the Westbrook Food Pantry, the Root Cellar in Portland, Wayside Food Programs in Portland, the Salvation Army in Portland, and the Preble Street Food Pantry in Portland, he said.

“They had so many pies they didn’t have the resources to distribute them all,” Morrison said.

Jenna Posey, left, and Jessica Santos, both senior nursing students at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, set out the finished pies at one end of Pearson’s Café during Monday’s record-breaking, pie-making effort organized by the college’s food service provider.Akossiwa Alognon, a sophomore studying math, adds pie crust to pans of apple and dough.Salem Gerrish, a 10-year-old volunteer from Naples, wraps the finished pies in plastic wrap at the end of the long assembly line.