page_title: Wallis and Futuna
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Wallis and Futuna / Demographics / Religion
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: La cathédrale de Mata Utu (à Wallis-et-Futuna) vue depuis un drone (2018). English: The cathedral of Mata Utu (Wallis island, Wallis and Futuna) seen from a drone, 2018.
context_page_description: Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast, Samoa to the east, and Tokelau to the northeast.
  Its land area is 142.42 km² with a population of 11,558 at the 2018 census. Matā'Utu is the capital and biggest city. The territory is made up of three main volcanic tropical islands along with a number of tiny islets, and is split into two island groups that lie about 260 km apart, namely the Wallis Islands in the northeast, and the Hoorn Islands in the southwest, including Futuna Island proper and the mostly uninhabited Alofi Island.
  Since 2003, Wallis and Futuna has been a French overseas collectivity. Between 1961 and 2003, it had the status of a French overseas territory, though its official name did not change when the status changed.
context_section_description: The overwhelming majority (99%) of the people in Wallis and Futuna are Roman Catholics, served by their own Roman Catholic Diocese of Wallis and Futuna, with see at Mata-Utu, a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nouméa (New Caledonia).
caption: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, Mata-Utu
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