Religion In Romania
Religion in Romania (2011 census)
Romanian Orthodox (85.9%) Protestantism (5.6%) Catholicism (5.3%) Other religions (1.8%) No religion (1.4%)Romania is a secular state, and it has no state religion. However, an overwhelming majority of the country's citizens are Christian. 85,9% of the country's population identified as Eastern Orthodox in the 2011 census (see also: History of Christianity in Romania). Other Christian denominations include Roman Catholicism (4.6%), Calvinism (3.15%), Pentecostal denominations (1.9%) and the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church (0.84%). Romania also has a small but historically significant Muslim minority, concentrated in Dobrogea, who are mostly of Crimean Tatar and Turkish ethnicity and number 67,500 people. Based on the 2002 census data, there are also approximately 6,000 Jews and 23,105 people who are of no religion or atheist.
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