page_title: Religion in Argentina
section_title: State-Catholic church relations
hierarchical_section_title: Religion in Argentina / Legal status / State-Catholic church relations
caption_attribution_description: Español: La presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recibe al arzobispo Jorge Bergoglio.
context_page_description: Argentina, for much of its history and including the present day, has been an overwhelmingly Christian country. The largest Christian denomination in the country is Roman Catholicism. The historical background is very much due to the Spanish influence brought about through the newly conquered territories. However, immigration throughout the 20th century has brought other Catholics and denominations from various regions to Argentina.
  Overall, a 2008 survey found that 24% attended religious services regularly, and that 10.3% described themselves as unaffiliated.
  Only 35% of Argentines consider religion to be very important in their lives according to a 2015 Pew Research Center report.
  Argentina is also home to the largest Muslim community in Latin America, numbering at around 400,000 people or 1% of the total population.
  As of 2019, 74.3% of the population of Argentina is Christian, 63.3% belong to the Roman Catholic Church, 11.0% is Evangelical, 24.1% are unaffiliated and 2.1% belong to other religions.
  About 37% of Argentines say that religion is not too or not at all important in their lives, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center report.
context_section_description: The Constitution requires the government to support Roman Catholicism economically. Despite this, the Supreme Court ruled that the Roman Catholic Church was not granted the status of official religion by the constitution or any federal legislation.
  The Constitution once stated that the president must be a Roman Catholic. This requirement was removed from the text in the 1994 constitutional reform, since the president no longer designates Argentine bishops. The old 1853 text also included a goal "to keep a pacific relationship with the Indians and promote their conversion to Catholicism", which was deleted in the reform.
  Each bishops receives a monthly salary from the state. Older seminarians and retired priests receive state pensions, and parishes in convective or near the border are subsidised. The state also subsidises catholic schools.
caption: President Cristina Kirchner receives Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio (2007)
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