page_title: Catholic Church in Croatia
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Catholic Church in Croatia / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Zadar, Croatia: Cathedral of St. Anastasia (Croatian: Katedrala sv. Stošije, view from NNW)
context_page_description: The Catholic Church in Croatia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church that is under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, Roman Curia and the Croatian Bishops' Conference. Its administration is centered in Zagreb, and it comprises five archdioceses, 13 dioceses and one military ordinariate. Cardinal Josip Bozanić is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zagreb.
  There are an estimated 3.7 million baptized Latin Catholics and about 20,000 baptized Greek Catholics in Croatia, comprising 86.3% of the population, according to the 2011 census. Weekly Church attendance is relatively high compared to other Catholic nations in Europe, being around 27%. The national sanctuary of Croatia is in Marija Bistrica, while the country's patron is Saint Joseph since the Croatian Parliament declared him to be in 1687.
context_section_description: The published data from the 2011 Croatian census included a crosstab of ethnicity and religion which showed that a total of 3,697,143 Catholic believers (86.28% of the total population) was divided between the following ethnic groups:
  3,599,038 Catholic Croats
  22,331 Catholic believers of regional affiliation
  15,083 Catholic Italians
  9,396 Catholic Hungarians
  8,521 Catholic Czechs
  8,299 Catholic Roma
  8,081 Catholic Slovenes
  7,109 Catholic Albanians
  3,159 Catholic Slovaks
  2,776 Catholic believers of undeclared nationality
  2,391 Catholic Serbs
  1,913 Catholic believers of other nationalities
  1,847 Catholic Germans
  1,692 Catholic Ruthenians
  1,384 Catholic believers of unknown nationality
  1,339 Catholic Ukrainians
  other individual ethnicities (under 1,000 people each)
caption: Zadar Cathedral
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