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Eastern Orthodoxy in Europe

The Eastern Orthodoxy in Europe constitutes the second largest Christian denomination. European Eastern Orthodox Christians are predominantly present in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and they are also significantly represented in diaspora throughout the Continent. The term Eastern Orthodox Europe is informally used to describe the predominantly Eastern Orthodox countries of Eastern Europe, as well as, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine.

97.0% (2017 census)[2]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Moldova

90%[2]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece

84.6% (2011 census)[3]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Serbia

83.4% (2014 census)[4]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Georgia

81.0% (2015 census)[5]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Romania

79% (est.)[2]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Russia

77% (2011 census)[6]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Bulgaria

73.2% (est.)[7]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Cyprus

73% (2011 census)[8]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Belarus

72.1% (2011 census)[9]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Montenegro

69.6% (est.)[10]

Eastern Orthodoxy in North Macedonia

67.3% (est.)[11]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Ukraine

31.0% (2013 census)[12]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Bosnia and Herzegovina

20% (est.)

Eastern Orthodoxy in Albania

19.4% (2011 census)[13]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Latvia

16.15% (2011 census)[14]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Estonia

8.8% (2018 census)[15]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Austria

4.9% (2011 census)[16]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Lithuania

4.44% (2011 census)

Eastern Orthodoxy in Croatia

3.5%

Eastern Orthodoxy in Italy

2.4%[17]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Germany

2.3% (2002 census)

Eastern Orthodoxy in Slovenia

2.2% (by Wikipedia)

Eastern Orthodoxy in Spain

1.5% (by Wikipedia)

Eastern Orthodoxy in Poland

1.3% (2017)

Eastern Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland

1.09% (2020 census)[18]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Finland

0.9% (2011 census)[19]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Slovakia

0.22% (2012)

Eastern Orthodoxy in Norway

0.2% (2022 census)[20]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Armenia

0.1% (2011 census)[21]

Eastern Orthodoxy in Hungary

Byzantine commonwealth

Mount Athos

Victoria Clark (21 November 2011). . Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4472-1639-1.

Why Angels Fall: A Journey Through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo

Jonathan Shepard (2007). . Ashgate Variorum. ISBN 978-0-7546-5920-4.

The Expansion of Orthodox Europe: Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia

Jonathan Sutton; William Peter van den Bercken (2003). . Peeters Publishers. pp. 92–. ISBN 978-90-429-1266-3.

Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Europe: Selected Papers of the International Conference Held at the University of Leeds, England, in June 2001

Alexandru Duţu (1 January 1998). . Babel. ISBN 978-973-48-1042-0.

Political Models and National Identities in "Orthodox Europe"

Kiminas, Demetrius (2009). . Wildside Press LLC. ISBN 9781434458766.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs

(1974) [1971]. The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe, 500-1453. London: Cardinal. ISBN 9780351176449.

Obolensky, Dimitri

(1956). History of the Byzantine State. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Ostrogorsky, George