Religion in North Macedonia

Religion in North Macedonia (2021 Census Results)[2]
  1. Orthodoxy 46.14 (46.1%)
  2. Catholicism 0.37 (0.37%)
  3. Other Christian 13.93 (13.9%)
  4. Islam 32.17 (32.2%)
  5. None 0.13 (0.13%)
  6. Others (predominantly Orthodox Macedonians as per registries) [1] 7.27 (7.27%)
Church of St. Sophia in Ohrid.

In North Macedonia, the most common religion is Eastern Orthodox Christianity, practiced mainly by ethnic Macedonians, Serbians, Vlachs, and Romanis. The vast majority of the Eastern Orthodox in the country belong to the Macedonian Orthodox Church, which declared autocephaly from the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1967.

Muslims are the second-largest religious group with almost one-third of the population adhering to Islam, mainly from the country's Albanian, Roma, Turkish, Bosniak, and Torbeši population. There are also many other religious groups in North Macedonia, including Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism.

  1. ^ "State Statistical Office - Census Law Article 5 (2)" (PDF). State Statistical Office (in Macedonian). 2022-04-08.
  2. ^ "Попис на населението, домаќинствата и становите во Република Северна Македонија, 2021 - прв сет на податоци" (in Macedonian). Archived from the original on 30 March 2022.

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