Orthodoxy by country

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Distribution of Eastern Orthodox Christians in the world by country:

Main religion (more than 75%)

Main religion (50–75%)

Important minority religion (20–50%)

Important minority religion (5–20%)

Minority religion (1–5%)

Tiny minority religion (below 1%), but has local autocephaly

Distribution of Oriental Orthodox Christians in the world by country:

Main religion (more than 75%)

Main religion (50–75%)

Important minority religion (20–50%)

Important minority religion (5–20%)

Minority religion (1–5%)

Tiny minority religion (below 1%), but has local autocephaly

Orthodoxy (with capital O) in Christianity refers to two distinctive denominations known by the appellation "Orthodox," namely the Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodoxy. Also, there are several other Christian communities that self-identify as Orthodox.

The various autocephalous and autonomous jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church are distinct in terms of administration and local culture, but are united in full communion with one another, hold the same beliefs, and also generally follow the same practices (the same rite). Some tensions exist in the philosophical differences between the New Calendarists and the Moderate Old Calendarists.

Oriental Orthodoxy also consists of several autocephalous and autonomous jurisdictions holding a single set of beliefs and united in full communion. However, they each have their own separate rites, and there are significant differences between their respective practices. Thus, there is more internal diversity of practice among the Oriental Orthodox than among the Eastern Orthodox.

## Contents

* 1 Eastern Orthodoxy
* 1.1 Predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christian countries
* 1.2 Eastern Orthodox churches (jurisdictions) in full communion
* 1.3 Eastern Orthodox primates
* 2 Oriental Orthodoxy
* 2.1 Distribution
* 2.2 Predominantly Oriental Orthodox Christian countries
* 2.3 Oriental Orthodox churches in full communion
* 3 Statistics
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## Eastern Orthodoxy

Main article: Religion:Eastern Orthodoxy by country

### Predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christian countries

The Eastern Orthodox Church is the largest single religious faith in:

* Belarus
* Bulgaria
* Cyprus
* Georgia
* Greece
* Macedonia
* Moldova
* Montenegro
* Romania
* Russia
* Serbia
* Ukraine[1]

Countries with a high percentage of Eastern Orthodox Christians include:

* Albania
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Estonia
* Kazakhstan
* Kyrgyzstan
* Latvia
* Egypt
* Lebanon
* Lithuania
* Syria
* Uzbekistan

### Eastern Orthodox churches (jurisdictions) in full communion

* Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
* Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
* Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia
* Finnish Orthodox Church
* Korean Orthodox Church
* American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese
* Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
* Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
* Church of Alexandria
* Church of Antioch
* Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
* Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Brazil
* Church of Jerusalem
* Russian Orthodox Church
* Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP)
* Japanese Orthodox Church
* Serbian Orthodox Church
* Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric
* Georgian Orthodox Church
* Romanian Orthodox Church
* Bulgarian Orthodox Church
* Church of Cyprus
* Church of Greece
* Albanian Orthodox Church
* Polish Orthodox Church
* Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church
* Orthodox Church in America

### Eastern Orthodox primates

The following table includes the current primates (head bishops) of the autocephalous jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church, with their respective titles and episcopal sees. A primate may hold the title of Patriarch, Metropolitan, or Archbishop.

Title and episcopal see(s)  | Current primate  | In office since

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Ecumenical Patriarch, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Primus inter pares | Bartholomew I  | 1991
Pope and Patriarch of the Great City of Alexandria, Libya, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, all the land of Egypt, and all Africa  | Theodoros II  | 2004
Patriarch of Antioch and all the East  | John X (Yazigi)  | 2012
Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine, and of Syria, Arabia, beyond the Jordan River, Cana of Galilee, and Sacred Zion  | Theophilos III  | 2005
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia | Kirill I  | 2009
Patriarch of All Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and Metropolitan bishop of Abkhazia and Pitsunda  | Ilia II  | 1977
Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch  | Irinej  | 2010
Patriarch of All Romania, Archbishop of Bucharest  | Daniel  | 2007
Metropolitan of Sofia and Patriarch of All Bulgaria  | Neofit  | 2013
Archbishop of New Justiniana and all Cyprus | Chrysostomos II  | 2006
Archbishop of Athens and all Greece  | Ieronymos II  | 2008
Archbishop of Tirana and all Albania  | Anastasios  | 1992
Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland | Sawa  | 1998
Archbishop of Prešov and Prague, Metropolitan of Czech lands and Slovakia  | Rastislav [cs; cs; Rastislav (arcibiskup)] | 2014
Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All United States and Canada | Tikhon  | 2012

## Oriental Orthodoxy

### Distribution

Oriental Orthodoxy is the dominant religion in Armenia (94%), the ethnically Armenian Artsakh (98%), Ethiopia (44%, the total Christian population being 63%), and Eritrea (47%, the total Christian population being 54%).

Oriental Orthodoxy is especially the dominant religion in the two Ethiopian regions of Amhara (82%) and Tigray (95%), as well as the chartered city of Addis Ababa (75%). It is also important in Oromia Region (31%).

Oriental Orthodoxy is also one of two dominant religions in Eritrea (47%), especially in its highland regions Maekel Region (87%) and Debub Region (86%).

It is a significant minority religion in Egypt (10%), Sudan (5%, the total Christian population being 15%), Syria (3%, the total Christian population being 10-11% the rest being Greek Orthodox, Catholic and Church of the East), Lebanon (2%, the total Christian population being 40%) and Kerala, India (1%, the total Christian population being 2.3%).[2]

### Predominantly Oriental Orthodox Christian countries

Oriental Orthodoxy is the largest single religious faith in:

* Armenia
* Eritrea
* Ethiopia

Countries with a high percentage of Oriental Orthodox Christians include:

* Egypt
* Libya
* Sudan
* Syria
* Lebanon
* India

### Oriental Orthodox churches in full communion

* The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
* The British Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom
* The French Coptic Orthodox Church in France
* The Armenian Apostolic Church
* The Holy See of Cilicia
* The Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople
* The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem
* The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
* The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
* The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
* The Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church
* The Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Syrian Church

## Statistics

Country  | Christian Orthodox population[3][4] | Orthodox percentage (%) of total population  | Orthodox percentage (%) of World Orthodox population

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Albania  | 240,000[5] | 6.78  | 0.1
Armenia  | 3,220,236  | 98.80  | 1.17
Azerbaijan  | 260,000[5] | 1.77  | 0.05
Australia  | 567,680  | 2.43  | 0.26
Belarus  | 4,800,000-5,900,000[5] | 48.3-61.5[5] | 2.3[5]
Bosnia and Herzegovina  | 1,440,000[5] | 31  | 0.49
Brazil  | 130,000[5] | 0.4  | 0.02
Bulgaria  | 4,374,135-6,220,000[5] | 59.4[6]-83.0[5] | 2.4[5]
Canada  | 581,553  | 1.70  | 0.21
Croatia  | 194,134  | 4.40  | 0.07
Cyprus  | 625,444  | 78  | 0.23
Czech Republic  | 21,002  | 0.2  | 0.008
Egypt  | 7,609,500  | 9  | 2.38
Eritrea  | 2,530,000  | 47  | 1.2
Estonia  | 250,000[5] | 13.7  | 0.06
Ethiopia  | 45,000,000  | 44  | 13.9[5]
Finland  | 59,000  | 1.1  | 0.02
Georgia  | 3,820,000[5] | 87.8[5] | 1.5[5]
Germany  | 1,140,000[5] | 1.5  | 0.6
Greece  | 10,030,000[5] | 88.3[5] | 3.7[5]
India  | 3,800,059  | 0.4  | 1.38
Iran  | 250,000[7]-300,000[8] | 0.1  | 0.03
Iraq  | 629,340  | 2  | 0.23
Israel  | To be determined  | over 1  |
Jordan  | 310,656  | 4.8  | 0.11
Kazakhstan  | 4,193,271  | 26.19  | 1.52
Kyrgyzstan  | 540,000[5] | 8.26  | 0.16
Latvia  | 370,000[5] | 15.70  | 0.13
Lebanon  | 851,000  | 8  | 0.31
Lithuania  | 141,821  | 4.05  | 0.05
Template:Country data Macedonia, Republic of | 1,330,000[5] | 64.80  | 0.48
Moldova  | 3,321,853  | 93.30  | 1.20
Montenegro  | 446,858  | 72.07  | 0.16
Norway  | 9,894  | 0.02  | 0.004
Palestine  | 118,057  | 3  | 0.04
Poland  | 763,347  | 2  | 0.28
Romania  | 18,750,000[5] | 87.3[5] | 7.2[5]
Russia  | 58,190,191-99,775,000[5] | 41-77.0[9][10] | 39.0[5]
Serbia  | 6,630,000[5] | 86.3[5] | 3.2[5]
Slovakia  | 50,363  | 0.9  | 0.02
Sweden  | 103,027  | 1.1  | 0.04
Syria  | 1,800,400  | 8  | 0.07
Tajikistan  | 80,000[5] | 1.18  | 0.03
Turkey  | 180,000[11][5] | 0.1  | 0.03
Turkmenistan  | 270,000[5] | 2  | 0.04
Ukraine  | 27,802,000-34,850,000[5] | 65.4[1]-76.7[5] | 13.4[5]
United States  | 5,269,864  | 1.7  | 1.91
Uzbekistan  | 470,000[5] | 1.79  | 0.18
ⴲ World | 260,000,000[5] | 4[5] | 100

## See also

* Christianity by country
* List of Christian denominations by number of members
* Protestants by country
* Roman Catholicism by country

Other religions:

* Islam by country
* Jews by country
* Hinduism by country
* Buddhism by country
* No Faith by Country

General:

* List of religious populations

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 РЕЛІГІЯ, ЦЕРКВА, СУСПІЛЬСТВО І ДЕРЖАВА: ДВА РОКИ ПІСЛЯ МАЙДАНУ (Religion, Church, Society and State: Two Years after Maidan), 2016 report by Razumkov Center in collaboration with the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches. pp. 27-29. Archived.
2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20131016110920/http://www.syrianchurch.org/MalankaraChurch/DEFAULT.HTM. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
3. ↑ [1]
4. ↑ Eastern Orthodox Church
5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21 5.22 5.23 5.24 5.25 5.26 5.27 5.28 5.29 5.30 5.31 5.32 5.33 5.34 5.35 5.36 5.37 5.38 "Pewforum: Christianity (2010)" (PDF). http://www.pewforum.org/files/2011/12/Christianity-fullreport-web.pdf. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
6. ↑ "Field Listing :: Religions". The World Factbook. CIA.. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
7. ↑ Price, Massoume (December 2002). "History of Christians and Christianity in Iran". Christianity in Iran. FarsiNet Inc.. http://www.farsinet.com/iranbibl/christians_in_iran_history.html. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
8. ↑ U.S. State Department (2009-10-26). "Iran – International Religious Freedom Report 2009". The Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs. https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127347.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-01.
9. ↑ http://wciom.ru/index.php?id=268&uid=13365 VTSIOM
10. ↑ http://www.pewforum.org/2011/12/19/global-christianity-exec/ Pew
11. ↑ "Religions". Central Intelligence Agency. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html#tu. Retrieved 9 February 2013.

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