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Religion in Italy
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Italy is an overwhelmingly Catholic country (Catholics make up for the 87.8% of the populations, with 36.8% considering themselves practicing Catholics and 30.8% attending Church every Sunday [1]). However, there are also some important religious minorities.
This is a scheme of the religious composition of Italian population (58,751,711 - 2006, estimated):
- Christians: 53,500,000 (91.1%)
- Catholics: 51,600,000 (87.8%)
- Roman Catholics: 51,500,000 (87.6%)
- Eastern Catholics: 100,000 (0.2%)
- Italo-Albanians: 60,000 (0.1%)
- Others (Romanian-Catholics, Ukranian Greek-Catholics, Armenian Catholics, etc.): 40,000 (0.07%)
- Other Christians: 1,900,000 (3.2%)
- Protestants: 1,200,000 (2.1%)
- Evangelicals and Pentecostals: 550,000 (0.94%)
- Assemblies of God: 400,000 (0.68%)
- Others: 150,000 (0.25%)
- Jehovah's Witnesses: 500,000 (0.85%)
- Waldensians and Methodists: 35,000 (0.06%) [2]
- Waldensians: 30,000 (0.05%)
- Methodists: 5,000 (0.01%)
- Seventh-day Adventists: 25,000 (0.04%) [3]
- Latter-day Saints: 22,000 (0.04%)
- Others: 80,000 (0.14%)
- Baptists: 20,000 (0.03%)
- Brethren: 20,000 (0.03%)
- Anglicans: 15,000 (0.03%)
- Lutherans: 8,000 (0.01%)
- Others (Disciples of Christ, Reformed, Presbyterians, Mennonites, etc.): 15,000 (0.03%)
- Evangelicals and Pentecostals: 550,000 (0.94%)
- Eastern Orthodoxes: 700,000 (1.2%) [4]
- Greek-Orthodoxes: 180,000 (0.31%)
- Romanian-Orthodoxes: 150,000 (0.26%)
- Others (Urainian-Orthodoxes, Moldovan-Orthodoxes, Serbian-Orthodoxes, Russian-Orthodoxes, etc.): 370,000 (0.63%)
- Protestants: 1,200,000 (2.1%)
- Catholics: 51,600,000 (87.8%)
- Muslims: 850,000 (1.4%) [5]
- Buddhists: 110,000 (0.2%) [6]
- Hindus: 70,000 (0.1%)
- Sikhs: 70,000 (0.1%) [7]
- Jews: 45,000 (0.1%)
- No religion: 4,100,000 (7.0%)
- ^ http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2006/01_Gennaio/17/cattolici.shtml
- ^ http://www.chiesavaldese.org/pages/storia/dove_viviamo.php
- ^ http://www.fedevangelica.it/fcei/fcei041.asp#celi
- ^ http://www.ortodossia.it/it.html and http://www.db.caritas.glauco.it/caritas/dati/news/2004-05/25/Scheda.pdf
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4385768.stm and http://www.db.caritas.glauco.it/caritas/dati/news/2004-05/25/Scheda.pdf
- ^ http://www.buddhismo.it/ente.htm, http://www.sgi-italia.org/chi/ibisg.html and http://www.db.caritas.glauco.it/caritas/dati/news/2004-05/25/Scheda.pdf
- ^ http://www.etnomedia.org/14.htm
- Christianity in Italy
- Islam in Italy
- Jews in Italy
- Buddhism in Italy
- Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy
- List of Italian politicians belonging to a religious minority
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