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Today Islam is the second largest religion in England. About 38% of English Muslims live in London , where they make up 12.4% of the population. There are also large numbers of Muslims in Birmingham , Manchester , Bradford , Luton , Slough , Leicester and the mill towns of Northern England such as Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Oldham.
Christianity is the dominant religion in the United Kingdom. Results of the 2021 Census for England and Wales showed that Christianity is the largest religion (though makes up less than half of the population), followed by the non-religious, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
After 380, Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empire.The church in Roman Britain was overseen by a hierarchy of bishops and priests.Many existing pagan shrines were converted to Christian use and few pagan sites still operated by the fifth century. [1]
As part of the coronation ceremony, the monarch swears an oath to "maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England" before being crowned by the senior cleric of the Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury. All clergy of the ...
العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Čeština
In the 2011 census, 59.4% of the population of England specified their religion as Christian, 24.7% answered that they had no religion, 5% specified that they were Muslim, while 3.7% of the population belongs to other religions and 7.2% did not give an answer. [208] Christianity is the most widely practised religion in England.
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglican tradition, with foundational doctrines being contained in the Thirty-nine Articles and The Books of Homilies. [2]
The re-established Catholic episcopacy specifically avoided using places that were sees of the Church of England, in effect temporarily abandoning the titles of Catholic dioceses before Elizabeth I because of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851, which in England favoured a state church (i.e., Church of England) and denied arms and legal ...