Eastern Orthodoxy by country

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Eastern Orthodox Church

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Overview

* Structure
* Theology (History of theology)
* Liturgy
* Church history
* Holy Mysteries
* View of Salvation
* View of Mary
* View of icons

Background

* Crucifixion / Resurrection / Ascension
of Jesus

* Christianity
* Christian Church
* Apostolic succession
* Four Marks of the Church
* Orthodoxy

Organization

* Autonomy
* Autocephaly
* Patriarchate
* Ecumenical Patriarch
* Episcopal polity
* Canon law
* Clergy
* Bishops
* Priests
* Deacons
* Monasticism
* Degrees
* Bratstvo

Autocephalous jurisdictions

Autocephalous Churches who are officially part of the communion:

* Constantinople
* Alexandria
* Antioch
* Jerusalem
* Russia
* Serbia
* Romania
* Bulgaria
* Georgia
* Cyprus
* Greece
* Poland
* Albania
* Czech Lands and Slovakia

Autocephaly recognized by some autocephalous Churches de jure:

* America
* North Macedonia

Autocephaly and canonicity recognized by Constantinople and 3 other autocephalous Churches:

* Ukraine (OCU)

Spiritual independence recognized by Georgian Orthodox Church:

* Ukraine (UOC)

Autonomous jurisdictions

* Sinai (JP)
* Finland (EP)
* Estonia (EP)
* Japan (MP)
* China (MP)
* Americas (RP)
* Bessarabia (RP)
* Moldova (MP)

Semi-Autonomous:

* Crete (EP)
* Estonia (MP)
* ROCOR (MP)

Episcopal assemblies

* Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
* Austria
* Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg
* Canada
* France
* Germany
* Great Britain and Ireland
* Italy and Malta
* Latin America
* Scandinavia
* Spain and Portugal
* Switzerland and Liechtenstein
* United States of America

Noncanonical jurisdictions

* Old Believers
* Spiritual Christianity
* True Orthodoxy
* Catacomb Church
* Old Calendarists
* American Orthodox Catholic Church
* American World Patriarchs

* National churches:

*     * Abkhazia
* Belarus
* Italy
* Latvia
* Montenegro
* Turkey
* UOC–KP

* Evangelical Orthodox

Ecumenical councils

* First Seven Ecumenical Councils:

* Nicaea I
* Constantinople I
* Ephesus
* Chalcedon
* Constantinople II
* Constantinople III
* Nicaea II

* Other possible ecumenical councils:

* Constantinople IV
* Constantinople V

* Other important councils:

* Quinisext Council
* Jassy
* Moscow
* Jerusalem
* Constantinople (1872)

History

* Church Fathers
* Pentarchy
* Byzantine Empire
* Christianization of Georgia
* Christianization of Bulgaria
* Christianization of Kievan Rus'
* Great Schism
* Russia
* Ottoman Empire
* North America
* Moscow–Constantinople schism
* 15th–16th c.
* 1996
* 2018

Theology

* History of Eastern Orthodox theology
* (20th century (Neo-Palamism))

* Apophaticism
* Chrismation
* Contemplative prayer
* Essence vs. Energies
* Hesychasm
* Holy Trinity
* Hypostatic union
* Icons
* Metousiosis
* Mystical theology
* Nicene Creed
* Nepsis
* Oikonomia vs Akribeia
* Ousia
* Palamism
* Philokalia
* Phronema
* Sin
* Theosis
* Theotokos

* Differences from the Catholic Church
* Opposition to the Filioque
* Opposition to papal supremacy

Liturgy and worship

* Divine Liturgy
* Divine Services

* Akathist
* Apolytikion
* Artos
* Ectenia
* Euchologion
* Holy Water
* Iconostasis
* Jesus Prayer
* Aprakos
* Kontakion
* Liturgical entrances
* Liturgical fans
* Lity
* Memorial service
* Memory Eternal
* Omophorion
* Eastern Orthodox bowing
* Eastern Orthodox marriage
* Praxis
* Paraklesis
* Paschal greeting
* Paschal Homily
* Paschal troparion
* Prayer rope
* Prosphora
* Russian bell ringing
* Semantron
* Sign of the cross
* Sticheron
* Troparion
* Vestments
* Use of incense

Liturgical calendar

* Paschal cycle
* 12 Great Feasts
* Other feasts:

* Feast of Orthodoxy
* Intercession of the Theotokos

* The four fasting periods:

* Nativity Fast
* Great Lent
* Apostles' Fast
* Dormition Fast

Major figures

Saints (Russian (until 15th century), Russian (post-15th century), Serbian, American)

* Justin Martyr
* Athanasius of Alexandria
* Ephraim the Syrian
* Basil of Caesarea
* Cyril of Jerusalem
* Gregory of Nazianzus
* Gregory of Nyssa
* John Chrysostom
* Cyril of Alexandria
* John Climacus
* Maximus the Confessor
* John of Damascus
* Theodore the Studite
* Kassia
* Cyril and Methodius
* Photius I of Constantinople
* Vladimir the Great
* Sava I of Serbia
* Gregory Palamas
* Innocent of Alaska

Other topics

* Architecture
* Folk
* Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs
* Cross
* Saint titles
* Statistics by country

* v
* t
* e

Based on the numbers of adherents, the Eastern Orthodox Church (also known as Eastern Orthodoxy) is the second largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church, with the most common estimates of baptised members being approximately 220 million.[1][2][3] The numerous Protestant groups in the world, if taken all together, substantially outnumber the Eastern Orthodox,[4] but they differ theologically and do not form a single communion.[5]

## Overview

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In 2025, Russia was home to most of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians, with 101.5 million of them living within Russia borders (72%); at the same time, Ukraine had 27.8 million people following the religion (65.4%), followed by Romania (16.3 million or 81.1%), Greece (9.4 million or 90%) and Belarus (7.8 million or 83.3%).[6] It was the most popular religion in Moldova, with 93.3% of that country following Eastern Orthodoxy.

In 2024, Eastern Orthodoxy was the predominant religion in Russia (62%),[7] where roughly half the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians live. The religion is also heavily concentrated in the rest of Eastern Europe, where in 2007 it was the majority religion in Ukraine (65.4%[8]–77%),[9] Romania (82%),[10] Belarus (48%[11]–73%[12]), Greece (95%–98%),[10] Serbia (97%),[10] Moldova (93%),[10] Georgia (84%),[10] North Macedonia (65%),[10] Cyprus (89%)[10] and Montenegro (72%);[10] it is also predominant in the disputed territories of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria. In 2021, it was the dominant religion in Bulgaria (62.7%).[13][14]

At the start of the 21st century, significant minorities were present in several European countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina (31%),[10] Latvia (18%), Estonia (14%), Albania (7%),[15] Lithuania (4%), Croatia (4%), Slovenia (2%), and Finland (1.5%). In the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, Eastern Orthodoxy constituted the dominant religion in northern Kazakhstan, representing 23.9% of the population of the region in 2013.[16] It was also a significant minority in Kyrgyzstan (17%), Turkmenistan (5%), Uzbekistan (5%), Azerbaijan (2%),[10] and Tajikistan (1%). In the Levant, the most significant Eastern Orthodox populations are[when?] in Lebanon (8%),[17] Syria (5–8% prior to the 2011 civil war) in Palestine (0.5%–2.5%)[18] and Jordan (over 1%).[citation needed]

The percentage of Christians in Turkey, home to an historically large and influential Eastern Orthodox community, fell from 19% in 1914 to 2.5% in 1927,[19] due to genocide,[20] demographic upheavals caused by the population exchange between Greece and Turkey,[21] and the emigration of Christians to foreign countries (mostly in Europe and the Americas).[22] In 2021, there were 130,000 Orthodox Christians in Turkey (mainly adherents of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church).[23] In 2022, there was a large increase in the number of Eastern Orthodox Christians in Turkey to over 150,000 people; this included approximately 100,000 people escaping the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[24]

In 2010, there were 40 million Eastern Orthodox Christians in Africa, although 39 million of them lived in Ethiopia or Eritrea; in 2021 and 2022, the Russian Orthodox Church opened more than 200 parishes throughout the continent, and had plans to build a cathedral in Johannesburg.[25]

Recent[when?] immigration and missionary activity have raised[citation needed] the numbers of Eastern Orthodox adherents in traditionally Catholic and Protestant countries, including Australia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada and Switzerland, where they comprise roughly 2% of the population in each.[citation needed]

## Eastern Orthodox population by country

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Eastern Orthodox population by country

There is no universal agreement on the number of members of the Eastern Orthodox Church in each country. Each study performed that seeks to discover the number of adherents in a country may use different criteria, and be submitted to different populations. As such, some numbers may be inflated, and therefore inaccurate. Examples of this are Greece and Russia, where estimates of adherence to Eastern Orthodoxy may reach 80–98%, but where surveys found lower percentages professing Eastern Orthodoxy or belief in God. The likely reason for this disparity is that many people in majority Eastern Orthodox countries will culturally identify with the Eastern Orthodox Church, especially if they were baptized as children, even if they are not currently practicing. This includes those who may be irreligious, yet culturally identify with the Eastern Orthodox Church, or for whom Eastern Orthodox Christianity is listed on official state records. Other cases of incongruent data also might be due to counting ethnic groups from Eastern Orthodox countries rather than actual adherents. For example, the Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions in the United States, which has large numbers of immigrants from Eastern Orthodox countries, have collectively reported a total of 2–3 million across the country.[citation needed]

However, a 2010 study by Alexei Krindatch sought data from each parish, with the specific criteria of annual participation, discovering that there were only about 817,000 Eastern Orthodox Christians actively practicing their faith (i.e., attending church services on a regular basis) in the United States. The study explained that such a difference was due to a variety of circumstances, for example the higher numbers having counted all people who self-identify as Eastern Orthodox on a census regardless of active participation, or all people belonging to ethnic groups originating in Eastern Orthodox countries. This study, while initially controversial, proved groundbreaking, and has since been officially approved for use by the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America.[citation needed]

Country  | Total population  | % Eastern Orthodox  | Eastern Orthodox total

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Albania (details)  | 2,621,977  | 7.22%[B] | 173,645[B][26]
Armenia (details)  | 3,018,854  | 0.25%  | 7,587[27]
Australia (details)  | 23,824,600  | 2.6%  | 563,100[28]
Austria (details)  | 8,773,000  | 6%  | 500,000
Azerbaijan (details)  | 9,624,900  | 2.5%  | 240,000
Belarus (details)  | 9,349,645  | 83.3%[29] | 7,788,254
Bosnia and Herzegovina (details)  | 3,502,227  | 31%[10] | 1,086,733
Brazil (details)  | 210,147,125  | 0.064%  | 135,000
Bulgaria (details)  | 6,445,481[30] | 63.5%[31] | 4,091,780
Canada (details)  | 33,476,688  | 1.7%  | 550,690[32]
China (details)  | 1,386,000,000  | 0.001%  | 15,000
Croatia (details)  | 4,284,889  | 4.44%[33] | 195,969
Cyprus (details)  | 838,897  | 89.1%[10] | 781,900
Czech Republic (details)  | 10,538,275  | 0.2%  | 20,533
Egypt (details)  | 105,000,000  | 0.3%  | 350,000[34]
Estonia (details)  | 1,294,486  | 13.66%  | 176,773[35][36]
France (details)  | 67,150,000  | 1%  | 500,000–700,000[37]
Fiji (details)  | 912,241  | 0.02%  | 200+[38]
Finland (details)  | 5,477,359  | 1.1%[39] | 70,000
Georgia (details)  | 3,713,804  | 83.4%  | 3,097,312
Germany (details)  | 84,270,625  | 3.56%  | 3,000,000[40]
Greece (details)  | 10,423,054  | 90%[41] | 9,380,749
Grenada (details)  | 107,317  | 0.1%  | 100[42]
Guatemala (details)  | 17,263,239  | 3%  | 200,000–550,000
Israel (details)  | 9,010,050[10] | 0.67%[10] | 100,000
Italy (details)  | 60,795,612  | 1.5%  | 900,000[43]
Japan (details)  | 126,226,568  | 0.02%  | 20,000[44]
Jordan (details)  | 9,531,712  | 2–4.5%  | 150,000–350,000
Kazakhstan (details)  | 17,948,816  | 23.9%  | 4,300,000[16]
Korea, South (details)  | 51,413,925  | 0.01%  | 6,000
Kosovo* (details)  | 1,433,842  | 1.5%[A] | 25,837[C]
Kyrgyzstan (details)  | 5,895,100  | 17%[45] | 1,000,000
Latvia (details)  | 2,027,000  | 17.9%  | 370,000[46]
Lebanon (details)  | 4,525,247  | 9%  | 330,000
Lithuania (details)  | 2,966,954  | 4.2%  | 125,189[47]
Madagascar (details)  | 26,262,313  | 0.06%  | 15,000[48]
Mexico (details)  | 121,736,809  | 0.01%  | 15,000
Moldova (details)  | 3,383,332  | 93.3%  | 3,158,015[49]
Montenegro (details)  | 629,320  | 81%  | 509,749[50]
New Zealand (details)  | 4,599,327  | 0.3%  | 13,883[16]
North Macedonia (details)  | 2,022,547  | 69.8%  | 1,610,184[51]
Norway (details)  | 5,328,212  | 0.41%  | 21,993[52]
Palestine (details)  | 4,550,368  | 2.5%[18] | 100,000
Philippines | 109,035,343[53] | 0.002%  | 2,500[54]
Poland (details)  | 38,386,000  | 1.4%  | 504,400[55]
Romania (details)  | 20,121,641  | 81.1%  | 16,321,389[56]
Russia (details)[57] | 145,500,000  | 61.8%[7][58]-72%[59][60] | 101,450,000[60]–104,000,000[61][62]
Serbia (details)  | 7,237,375  | 84%  | 6,079,395[63]
Slovakia (details)  | 5,397,036  | 0.9%  | 49,133[64]
Slovenia (details)  | 2,055,496  | 2.2%  | 45,000
Spain (details)  | 46,464,053  | 3.1%  | 1,500,000
Sweden (details)  | 9,775,572  | 1.5%  | 145,279[65]
Switzerland (details)  | 8,211,700  | 1.7%  | 140,000[66]
Syria (details)  | 22,457,336  | 3.1%  | 700,000
Tajikistan (details)  | 8,208,000  | 2%  | 160,000
Transnistria (details)  | 505,153  | 91%[67] | 460,000
Turkey (details)  | 84,277,439  | 0.02%  | 16,000[68]
Turkmenistan (details)  | 5,171,643  | 5.3%[69] | 270,000
Ukraine (details)  | 40,000,000  | 65.4–76.6%[9] | 27,802,000[8]–34,850,000[9]
United States (details)  | 321,163,157  | 0.3%  | 1,043,850[70]
United Kingdom (details)  | 67,886,011  | 0.7%  | 475,000
Uzbekistan (details)  | 29,559,100  | 5%[71] | 1,000,000
TOTAL | 3,331,625,296  | 4%[72] | ~220 million[2]
A Unreliable census (boycotted by most Serbs).

B Unreliable census

## Eastern Orthodox Church by jurisdiction

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Further information: Eastern Orthodox Church organization

### Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches

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The Eastern Orthodox Church is organized as a union of several autocephalous subdivisions, which are also called "Churches" (or, sometimes, "jurisdictions"). Some are associated with a specific country, while others are not. This table presents some known data regarding individual jurisdictions. "NA" means that data is not available.

Eastern Orthodox Church by jurisdiction Jurisdiction  | Bishops  | Priests  | Monastics  | Monasteries  | Parishes

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Constantinople | 125  | NA  | 1,800[Note 1] | 142  | 648
Alexandria | 41  | NA  | NA  | NA  | NA
Antioch | 36  | NA  | NA  | NA  | NA
Jerusalem | 20  | NA  | NA  | NA  | NA
Russia | 217  | 30,675  | NA  | 807  | 30,142
Serbia | 45  | NA  | NA  | 286  | 3,100
Romania | 53  | 15,068  | 7,605  | 359  | 15,717
Bulgaria | 15  | 1,500  | NA  | 120  | 2,600
Georgia | 37  | 730  | NA  | NA  | 600
Cyprus | 16  | NA  | NA  | 67  | NA
Greece | 101  | 10,000  | 3,541[73] | 646[73] | 9,146[74]
Poland | 12  | NA  | NA  | NA  | 400
Albania | 6  | 135  | NA  | 150  | 909
Czech Lands & Slovakia | 6  | NA  | NA  | NA  | 172
Orthodox Church in America | 50  | 2700  | NA  | 100  | 1200
Ukraine | NA  | NA  | NA  | NA  | 7,000[75][76]
North Macedonia | NA  | NA  | NA  | NA  | NA
Total  | 743  | 54,382  | 12,946  | 2,256  | 61,939

## Notes

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1. ^ This is including Mount Athos

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