page_title: Outline of Italy
section_title: Religion in Italy
hierarchical_section_title: Outline of Italy / Culture of Italy / Religion in Italy
caption_attribution_description: English: Milan Cathedral from Piazza del Duomo
context_page_description: The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Italy:
  Italy is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe, located primarily upon the Italian Peninsula. It is where Ancient Rome originated as a small agricultural community about the 8th century BC, which spread over the course of centuries into the colossal Roman empire, encompassing the whole Mediterranean Sea and merging the Ancient Greek and Roman cultures into one civilization. This civilization was so influential that parts of it survive in modern law, administration, philosophy and arts, providing the groundwork that the Western world is based upon.
context_section_description: Religion in Italy
  Bahá'í Faith in Italy
  Buddhism in Italy
  Christianity in Italy
  Apostolic Church in Italy
  Assemblies of God in Italy
  Baptist Evangelical Christian Union of Italy
  Catholic Church in Italy
  Chiesa Cristiana in Italia
  Eastern Orthodoxy in Italy
  Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy
  Orthodox Church in Italy
  Evangelical Reformed Baptist Churches in Italy
  Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy
  List of Catholic dioceses in Italy
  Lutheran Evangelical Church in Italy
  Methodist Evangelical Church in Italy
  Protestantism in Italy
  Waldensian Evangelical Church
  Old Catholic Church in Italy
  Oriental Orthodoxy in Italy
  Hinduism in Italy
  Islam in Italy
  Judaism in Italy
  Sikhism in Italy
  Taoist Church of Italy
caption: Milan Cathedral, the fourth-largest church in the world
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