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A map of Canada by province and territory showing the distribution of the population by religious affiliation in 2021. Christianity is the most adhered-to religion in Canada, with 19,373,330 Canadians, or 53.3%, identifying themselves as of the 2021 census. [1] [2] The preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms refers to God.
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, a national evangelical alliance, member of the World Evangelical Alliance was founded in 1964 in Toronto. [115] [116] [117] It brings together 43 Evangelical Christian denominations. [118] The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada were founded in 1914. [119] The Canadian Baptist Ministries were founded in 1944 ...
According to the Canada 2021 Census, the number of people in Canada who identify themselves as Baptists is 436,940, about 1.2% of the population. The major Baptist associations are the Canadian Baptist Ministries, the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada, the Canadian National Baptist Convention, and the Baptist General Conference of Canada.
The denominations listed below did not emerge from the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century or its commonly acknowledged offshoots. Instead, they are broadly linked to Pentecostalism or similar other independent evangelical and revivalistic movements that originated in the beginning of the 20th century. [222]
Recent statistics from the Pew Forum provide additional explanations for the decline. Evangelical church members are younger than those in mainline denominations. Fourteen percent of evangelical congregations are between 18 and 29 (compared to 2 percent), 36 percent between 30 and 49, 28 percent between 50 and 64, and 23 percent 65 or older.
Canada's largest Protestant branch, the United Church of Canada, underwent dramatic liberalization during the 1960s, abandoning evangelical tendencies and creating a gap in the religious market, which may have benefited Evangelical denominations in terms of gaining followers, particularly in more socially conservative areas of the country that ...
In 2011, Statistics Canada reported approximately 2 million people identifying as adherents. [7] The 2021 Canadian census found that more than 1 million Canadians (3.3% of the population) self-identified with the church, remaining the second-largest Christian denomination in Canada. [8] Church statistics for the end of 2023 showed 2,451 ...
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC; French: Église évangélique luthérienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 95,000 [2] baptized members in 519 congregations, [3] with the second largest, the Lutheran Church–Canada, having 47,607 baptized members. [4]