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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, [20] due to genocide, [21] demographic upheavals caused by the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, [22] and the emigration of Christians to foreign countries (mostly in Europe and ...
A map of Oriental Orthodoxy by population percentage. The Oriental Orthodox Churches are those descended from those that rejected the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Despite the similar name, they are therefore a different branch of Christianity from the Eastern Orthodox (see above). There are an estimated 62 million Oriental Orthodox Christians ...
The second largest Christian branch is either Protestantism (if it is considered a single group), or the Eastern Orthodox Church (if Protestants are considered to be divided into multiple denominations). According to a 2012 Pew Research Center study, of the then 232 countries and territories, 157 had Christian majorities. [10]
The 2011 census reports the population is 7.4 million. According to the census, 76% of the population identifies itself as Orthodox Christian. Orthodox Christianity, Hanafi Sunni Islam, Judaism, and Roman Catholicism all hold a historic place in the country's culture. Muslims are the second largest religious group, estimated at 10% of the ...
Countries and territories with the greatest proportion of Christians from Christianity by country, as of 2010: Christian population percentage by country, June 2014 [5] Vatican City 100% (100% Roman Catholic) Pitcairn Islands 100% (100% Seventh-day Adventist) [6] East Timor 99.6% [7] (mostly Roman Catholic) Samoa ~99.0% (mostly Protestant) [8]
Eastern Orthodox population by country Eastern Orthodoxy is the predominant religion in Russia (77%), [ 74 ] [ 75 ] [ 76 ] where roughly half the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians live.
Oriental Orthodoxy is the dominant religion in Armenia (94%), and Ethiopia (44%, the total Christian population being roughly 67%). [citation needed]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%).
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