page_title: Réunion
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Réunion / Demographics / Religion
caption_attribution_description: English: moderner Kirchenbau in Cilaos, Français&#160;: L’Église Notre-Dame-des-Neiges à Cilaos, La Réunion.
context_page_description: Réunion is an overseas department and region of the French Republic and an island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar and 175 km southwest of Mauritius. As of January 2020, it had a population of 859,959.
  As in France, the official language is French. In addition, the majority of the region's population speaks Réunion Creole.
  Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France. Like the other four overseas departments, it is also one of the 18 regions of France, with the modified status of overseas region, and an integral part of the republic with the same status as Metropolitan France. Réunion is an outermost region of the European Union and, as an overseas department of France, part of the eurozone.
context_section_description: The predominant religion is Christianity, notably Roman Catholicism, with a single (Latin Rite) jurisdiction, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion. Religious Intelligence estimates Christians to be 86.9% of the population, followed by Hindus (6.7%) and Muslims (3.2%). Chinese folk religion and Buddhism are also represented, among others.
  Most large towns have a Hindu temple and a mosque.
caption: Catholic church of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in Cilaos
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