page_title: Religion in Catalonia
section_title: Jehovah's Witnesses
hierarchical_section_title: Religion in Catalonia / Religions / Christianity / Restorationism / Jehovah's Witnesses
caption_attribution_description: Català: Sala del Regne dels Testimonis Cristians de Jehovà - Carrer del Doctor Aiguader, 14-16. Barcelona
context_page_description: Religion in Catalonia is diversified. Historically, virtually all the population was Christian, specifically Catholic, but since the 1980 there has been a trend of decline of Christianity and parallel growth of irreligion and other religions. The secularisation of Catalan culture started in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but conscious disaffiliation from Catholicism has also been driven since the 1980s by the religious authorities' association with Francoist Spain. According to the most recent study sponsored by the government of Catalonia, as of 2016, 61.9% of the Catalans identify as Christians, up from 56.5% in 2014, of whom 58.0% Catholics, 3.0% Protestants and Evangelicals, 0.9% Orthodox Christians and 0.6% Jehovah's Witnesses. At the same time, 16.0% of the population identify as atheists, 11.9% as agnostics, 4.8% as Muslims, 1.3% as Buddhists, and a further 2.4% as being of other religions.
context_section_description: 0.6% of the Catalans identify as Jehovah's Witnesses as of 2014. As of the same year, there are 118 Jehovah's kingdom halls in the country, found in all co-marches of Catalonia but with a high concentration in the province of Barcelona. Most Jehovah's Witnesses are ethnic Catalans.
caption: Kingdom hall in Barcelona.
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