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The most widely professed religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina is Islam and the second biggest religion is Christianity. Nearly all the Muslims of Bosnia are followers of the Sunni denomination of Islam ; the majority of Sunnis follow the Hanafi legal school of thought ( fiqh ) and Maturidi theological school of thought ( kalām ). [ 2 ]
The Bosnian Church (Serbo-Croatian: Crkva bosanska/ Црква босанска) was an autonomous Christian church in medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina.. Historians traditionally connected the church with the Bogomils, although this has been challenged and is now rejected by the majority of scholars. [2]
Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror vowed to protect Orthodox Christianity and, like all Orthodox churches, the Serbian Orthodox Church enjoyed great support from the Ottoman state. The Ottomans introduced a sizeable Orthodox Christian population into Bosnia proper, including Vlachs from the eastern Balkans. The conversion of the adherents of the ...
The Expansion of Orthodox Europe: Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia. Ashgate Variorum. ISBN 978-0-7546-5920-4. Jonathan Sutton; William Peter van den Bercken (2003). Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Europe: Selected Papers of the International Conference Held at the University of Leeds, England, in June 2001. Peeters Publishers. pp. 92–.
Christianity arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the first century AD. Saint Paul wrote in his Epistle to the Romans that he brought the Gospel of Christ to Illyria . Saint Jerome , a Doctor of the Church born in Stridon (modern-day Šuica, Bosnia and Herzegovina ), also wrote that St. Paul preached in Illyria.
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.
The Serbs of Bosnia & Herzegovina: History and Politics. Dialogue Association. ISBN 978-2-9115-2710-4. Hall, Richard C. (2014). War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. Hoare, Marko Attila (2007). The History of Bosnia: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day. Saqi.
There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam. The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and the Philippines. [12]