Christianity in the Philippines
The Philippines is ranked as the 5th largest Christian-majority country on Earth in 2010,[note 1] with about 93% of the population being adherents.[1] As of 2019, it was the third largest Catholic country in the world and was one of two predominantly Catholic nations in Asia.[2]
According to the National Statistics Office's national census for the year 2010, an estimated 90.1% of Filipinos were Christians; this consisted of 80.6% Catholic, 4% Iglesia ni Cristo, 1.0% Aglipayan, 2.7% Evangelical groups, and 3.4% other Christian groups including other Protestant denominations (Baptist, Pentecostal, Anglican, Methodist, and Seventh-day Adventist) as well as Orthodox. Around 5.6% of the whole country was Muslim; about 1-2% were Buddhist; 1.8% of the entire population adhered to other independent religions, while less than 0.1% (as of 2015)[3] were irreligious.
According to the 2020 census, at least 84% of the population is Christian; about 79% belong to the Catholic Church while about 5% belong to Protestantism and other denominations such as Philippine Independent Church, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Apostolic Catholic Church, United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Members Church of God International (MCGI) and Pentecostals.[4]
Many Filipinos in 2021 celebrated 500 years of Christian presence in the Philippines[5] with Pope Francis commemorating March 16, the day Magellan introduced Catholicism with a mass on Limasawa, Leyte.[6][7][8][9]
Jaime Cardinal Sin, 30th Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila instrumental in the 1986 People Power Revolution
Gregorio Aglipay, a co-founder and the first supreme bishop of the nationalist church Iglesia Filipina Independiente, the first-ever wholly Filipino-led independent Christian church in the country
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