Religion in Italy
Demography

Religion in Italy

Section Title: Demography
Table Section Text: None

Religion / denomination	Italian citizens	Foreign residents	Total population

members	%	members	%	members	%

Christianity	40,734,750	73.0	2,699,000	53.8	43,433,750	71.4

Catholic Church	39,661,400	71.1	917,900	18.3	40,579,300	66.7

Latin Catholic Church	data not available

Eastern Catholic Churches	data not available

Italo-Albanian Catholic Church	61,398	0.1	data not available	61,398	0.1

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church	data not available

Romanian Greek-Catholic Church	data not available

Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy	157,988	0.3	1,528,500	30.5	1,686,500	2.8

Romanian Orthodox Church – Diocese of Italy	data not available

Greek Orthodox Church – Archdiocese of Italy	data not available	150,000	0.3

Russian Orthodox Church	data not available

Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)	data not available

Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyivan Patriarchate)	data not available

Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church	data not available

Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria	data not available	30,000	0.1

Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church	data not available

Serbian Orthodox Church	data not available	15,000	0.0

Bulgarian Orthodox Church	data not available	3,000	0.0

Orthodox Church in Italy	data not available

Protestantism	442,377	0.8	216,000	4.3	658,400	1.1

Pentecostal churches	318,000	0.6	data not available

Assemblies of God in Italy	150,000	0.3	data not available

Federation of Pentecostal Churches	50,000	0.1	data not available

Apostolic Church in Italy	10,000	0.0	data not available

Historical Protestant churces – FCEI	65,442	0.1	data not available

Waldensian Evangelical Church	30,000	0.1	data not available

Baptist Evangelical Christian Union of Italy	20,000	0.0	data not available

Lutheran Evangelical Church in Italy	7,000	0.0	data not available

Methodist Evangelical Church in Italy	5,000	0.0	data not available

Others (including Presbyterians and The Salvation Army)	3,000	0.0	data not available

African Pentecostal initiated churches	data not available

Anglican Communion – Diocese in Europe	data not available

Evangelical Christian Church of the Brethren	21,295	0.0	data not available

Seventh-day Adventist Church (Italy)	20,369	0.0	data not available

Restorationist "Christian" churches	5,073	0.0	data not available

Nondenominational churches and others	11,294	0.0	data not available

Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses (Italy)	422,000	0.8	36,600	0.7	515,100	0.8

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Italy)	26,000	0.0

Independent Catholic churches	25,000	0.0

Islam	245,621	0.4	1,613,500	32.2	1,859,100	3.1

Sunni Islam	data not available

Union of Islamic Communities and Organisations in Italy	data not available

Italian Islamic Confederation	data not available

Islamic Religious Community	data not available

Shia Islam	data not available

Buddhism	148,392	0.3	108,900	2.2	257,300	0.4

Soka Gakkai Italian Buddhist Institute	data not available	75,000	0.1

Italian Buddhist Union	data not available	61,000	0.1

Hinduism	30,392	0.1	146,800	2.9	177,200	0.3

Italian Hindu Union	data not available

Sikhism	data not available	150,000	0.2

Judaism	36,150	0.1	6,700	0.1	42,850	0.1

Union of Italian Jewish Communities	25,000	0.0	data not available

Other/No religion	data not available	24.5

Other religions	data not available

No religion	data not available

Totals	55,782,575	100.0	5,014,037	100.0	60,795,612	100.0

Sentence(s)

71.1% of Italians are Catholic.

final_sentence: 71.1% of Italians are Catholic.