page_title: Steffisburg
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Steffisburg / Religion
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Dorfkirche von Steffisburg
context_page_description: Steffisburg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Schwendibach merged into the municipality of Steffisburg.
context_section_description: From the 2000 census, 9,786 or 68.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 1,778 or 12.4% were Roman Catholic.  Of the rest of the population, there were 136 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.95% of the population), there were 18 individuals (or about 0.13% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 806 individuals (or about 5.62% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church.  There were 8 individuals (or about 0.06% of the population) who were Jewish, and 333 (or about 2.32% of the population) who were Muslim.  There were 37 individuals who were Buddhist, 49 individuals who were Hindu and 20 individuals who belonged to another church.  923 (or about 6.43% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 455 individuals (or about 3.17% of the population) did not answer the question.
caption: Steffisburg parish church
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