Orthodox Europe
Orthodoxy in Europe
The term Orthodox Europe is informally used to describe the predominantly Eastern Orthodox countries of Eastern Europe. These include Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine.
The term "Orthodox Belt" has been informally used for the Orthodox territories in the Balkans,[1] and the combined Orthodox territories stretching from the Balkans, to the Caucasus and to Cyprus.[2]
History
Almost all of Orthodox Europe became part of communist states after World War II.[3]
Orthodoxy in Orthodox majority countries
- Orthodoxy in Greece, 97% (est.)[4]
- Orthodoxy in Serbia, 84.6% (2011 census)
- Orthodoxy in Romania, 83.6% (2015 census)
- Orthodoxy in Georgia, 83.4% (2014 census)[5]
- Orthodoxy in Bulgaria, 82.6% (2001 census)
- Orthodoxy in Cyprus, 78% (est.)
- Orthodoxy in Ukraine, 72% (est.)
- Orthodoxy in Montenegro, 72.1% (2011 census)
- Orthodoxy in Bulgaria, 59.4% (2011 census)[6]
- Orthodoxy in Belarus, 48.3% (2011 census)[7]
Orthodoxy in non-Orthodox majority countries
- Orthodoxy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 31% (est.)
- Orthodoxy in Latvia, 19.4% (2011 census)[8]
- Orthodoxy in Estonia, 16.15% (2011 census)
- Orthodoxy in Lithuania, 4.9% (2011 census)[9]
- Orthodoxy in Croatia, 4.44% (2011 census)
- Orthodoxy in Slovenia, 2.3% (2002 census)
- Orthodoxy in Finland, 1.1% (2015 census)
- Orthodoxy in Slovakia, 0.9% (2011 census)[10]
- Orthodoxy in Hungary, 0.15% (2001 census)
- Orthodoxy in Norway, 0.22% (2012)
- Orthodoxy in Hungary, 0.1% (2011 census)[11]
- Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland
See also
References
- ↑ Sabrina Petra Ramet (1 January 2002). Balkan Babel: The Disintegration Of Yugoslavia From The Death Of Tito To The Fall Of Milosevic, Fourth Edition. Westview Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-8133-4618-2.
- ↑ Jahrbuch der Diplomatischen Akademie Wien. Die Akademie. 1992. p. 121.
- ↑ Mary B. Cunningham; Elizabeth Theokritoff (18 December 2008). The Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 15–. ISBN 978-0-521-86484-8.
- ↑ John Stephen Bowden (2005). Encyclopedia of Christianity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-522393-4.
- ↑ "საქართველოს მოსახლეობის საყოველთაო აღწერის საბოლოო შედეგები" (PDF). National Statistics Office of Georgia. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ↑ "NSI". Retrieved 24 February 2012.
- ↑ Religion and denominations in the Republic of Belarus by the Commissioner on Religions and Nationalities of the Republic of Belarus from November 2011
- ↑ "Tieslietu ministrijā iesniegtie reliģisko organizāciju pārskati par darbību 2011. gadā" (in Latvian). Retrieved 2012-07-25.
- ↑ Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. "Ethnicity, mother tongue and religion".. 2013-03-15.
- ↑ "Table 14 Population by religion" (PDF). Statistical Office of the SR. 2011. Retrieved Jun 8, 2012.
- ↑ "1.26 Population by religion and sex, 1930–1949, 2001". Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Archived from the original on 26 January 2010. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
Sources
- Victoria Clark (21 November 2011). Why Angels Fall: A Journey Through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4472-1639-1.
- Jonathan Shepard (2007). 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–. ISBN 978-90-429-1266-3.
- Alexandru Duţu (1 January 1998). Political Models and National Identities in "Orthodox Europe". Babel. ISBN 978-973-48-1042-0.
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