Can you name the Largest Religious Denominations in each European Country? by zeppelinoid

Can you name the Largest Religious Denominations in each European Country?

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Source: CIA Fact Book
Name the largest religious denomination in each European sovereign state. (Armenia and Cyprus which are in asia are included on historical and cultural grounds).
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Country	Largest Denomination
Ireland
Lithuania
Poland
Latvia
Kazakhstan
Macedonia
Germany
Hungary
Austria
Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Estonia
Sweden
Moldova
Albania
Belgium
Italy
Romania
Ukraine
San Marino
Greece
Croatia
Montenegro
Luxembourg
Malta

Country	Largest Denomination
Cyprus
Spain
Iceland
Armenia
Switzerland
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Azerbaijan
Finland
Slovenia
Bulgaria
Belarus
Liechtenstein
Turkey
Portugal
Andorra
Serbia
Russia
Vatican City
Georgia
Slovakia
Czech Republic
France
Kosovo
United Kingdom
Monaco

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Largest Religious Denominations of European Countries Quiz

by zeppelinoid

Created Dec 4, 2010 in Religion
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	chriskotx:	Dec 5th, 2010 at 19:38 GMT	12 points
	If simply "Armenian" were accepted, I would have gotten a perfect score. I'm very surprised to find that Roman Catholic was the answer for Netherlands.

	zeppelinoid:	Dec 5th, 2010 at 20:27 GMT	6 points
	@chriskotx: I have altered to allow "Armenian" as it is proving very difficult. When I researced the quiz I was also astonished that the largest denomination on the Netherlands is RC. I would have assumed Dutch Reformed Church for such a notoriously protestant country.

	Azrael:	Dec 7th, 2010 at 15:50 GMT	1 point
	Azerbaijan is Shiite.

	zeppelinoid:	Dec 8th, 2010 at 14:56 GMT	4 points
	@Azrael: Thank you. This has been corrected. "Islam" or "Muslim" were already accepted as answers.

	johnlk:	Dec 8th, 2010 at 21:44 GMT	5 points
	I think the issue with the Netherlands is that so many people of Protestant background are completely irreligious, and that, beyond the old established church there's a bunch of other protestant churches competing with it. Catholics are a minority, but are the largest single denomination (just as they are in the United States).

	esumid:	Dec 12th, 2010 at 15:47 GMT	-4 points
	latvia and netherlands are wrong, they are both mostly protestant.

	stpgnrvr:	Dec 13th, 2010 at 01:31 GMT	15 points
	for the roughly 10% that missed vatican city you need to be saved

	zeppelinoid:	Dec 13th, 2010 at 10:50 GMT	4 points
	@esumid: You have not read the subject of the quiz. It is asking for the largest denomination in each country not the split between Catholocism/Protestantish/Orthodoxy etc. Latvia - Roman Catholic - 22.6%; Evangelical Lutheran - 20.3%; Latvian Orthodox - 15.8%; (source Ministry of Justice Survey, 2003). Netherlands - Roman Catholic - 26.3%; Protestant Church in the Netherlands - 12%; Islam 5.8%; Other Protestant - 4.8% (Source SCP Report, 2007). You will note that the RC's outnumber all protestant groups in the Netherlands by over 50%!

	TreehuggnCowgirl:	Jan 17th, 2011 at 20:59 GMT	0 points
	Wow. I didn't except Catholicism to be quite so dominant. Only the Lutherans can compete with orthodoxy.

	ddt:	Jan 23rd, 2011 at 21:55 GMT	1 point
	About the Netherlands: there are two reasons. First, the protestant churches have split up in several churches. Secondly, the protestants have become irreligious since the 1920s, while the catholics only started to leave church since the 1970s. I think the correct answer should be "atheist" as about half of the population is not religious. The latter is true for the Czech Republic too, BTW.

	giraki:	Jan 25th, 2011 at 17:14 GMT	0 points
	Protestant should be accepted for Lutheranism.

	zeppelinoid:	Jan 25th, 2011 at 21:10 GMT	7 points
	@ddt: Atheism is not a religion it is the state of adehering to no religion. At present the correct answer is Roman Catholic however surprising. I would add that the assumption that the part of the populace that are not members or adherents of a particular denomination are atheists is quite incorrect. Various states of apathy, spiritually awareness and agnosticism are not the same as atheism.

	zeppelinoid:	Jan 25th, 2011 at 21:13 GMT	8 points
	@giraki: "Protestant" should most definitely not be accepted for Lutheranism in a quiz that has asked for the most common denomination on each country. Protestantism covers many very different denomominations, Lutheranism is quite specific.

	Fjons:	Feb 27th, 2011 at 09:33 GMT	12 points
	10 min. is too much

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	zeppelinoid:	May 9th, 2011 at 16:01 GMT	4 points
	@discofreek: The quiz is about denominations not mainstream religions. Christianity is the largest religion in the UK and the largest denomination is Anglican (the Churches of England and Ireland, the Church in Wales and the Scottish Episcopal Church).

	british:	May 20th, 2011 at 03:51 GMT	1 point
	think of it like this. (on paper) theres a long road. its labeled christianity. theres a split off going right and its labeled eastern orthodox, yet the christianity road keeps going, suddenly you come up to a fork in the road and it splits off into catholicism and protestantism. (this basically explains the reformation, but it shows the different branches of christianity) my point is that all the denominations are christian, you can just keep going further in labeling.

	DunKhan:	Aug 19th, 2011 at 22:21 GMT	4 points
	@discofreek - different branches. Accepting protestant would be okay (though too easy) but just accepting Christianity would be silly. It's also a bit much to say that most British people are practicing Christians tbh, Christians are the biggest group but we're a pretty secular country on the whole! Also, very surprised to see the Netherlands being Roman Catholic!

	Sachsen:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 19:58 GMT	5 points
	Another surprise - thought for sure Germany would be Lutheran. A prophet has no honor in his own home, eh?

	M_C_HAMEL:	Sep 12th, 2011 at 23:30 GMT	10 points
	And if you missed the Vatican, look into the camera and say "I am not smarter than a fifth grader"

	ZYX:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 21:18 GMT	-1 points
	Could you accept Lutheran? You don't ask for Roman Catholicism, after all.

	zeppelinoid:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 21:38 GMT	4 points
	@ZYX: The quiz has always accepted Lutheran as an answer. There are several acceptable answers for each of the denominations.

	Caedus:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 18:12 GMT	-1 points
	Kazakhstan is in Europe?

	M_C_HAMEL:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 21:23 GMT	-1 points
	Yeah, Caedus has a point. Isnt the cutoff for Europe at the Ural Mts in Russia?

	zeppelinoid:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 21:43 GMT	8 points
	@Caedus: Slightly less than 10% of Kazakhstan is in Europe. It is the 9th largest country in the world. This means that there is proportionately much more of the country in Europe than Georgia and Azerbaijan (c.6%); Turkey (4%); or Armenia and Cyprus (0%) and the total Khazakhstani territory in Europe is several times that of the other countries combined. The Council of Europe (and therefore the EU) recognises Kazakhstan as being (partly) a European nation on geographic grounds. It only recognises Cyprus and Armenia as being European on cultural and/or historic grounds as they are both entirely in Asia.

	zeppelinoid:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 21:48 GMT	5 points
	M_C_HAMEL: Not at all. The whole of Kazakhstan is (a long way) south of the Urals and in any case a substantial proportion of the country (c. 10%) is further west than the end of the mountain range. The boundary of the two continents south of the Urals is generally considered to be the Ural River. The substantial propertion of Kazakhstan west of the river is in Europe.

	caramba:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 22:01 GMT	4 points
	@zeppelinoid: I thought Cyprus was in Asia!!!! ;-)

	caramba:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 22:02 GMT	2 points
	^I bet you've been waiting for that comment...

	zeppelinoid:	Sep 17th, 2011 at 07:21 GMT	5 points
	@caramba: Yes, I am surprised there were not more comments. In the notes I have stated that Armenia and Cyprus are "included for interest". I do not really mind their inclusion in cultural, historic or religious quizzes. It is where they are included in geographic quizzes but Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan or Georgia are omitted that I have a problem due to the obvious inconsistency and illogicality.

	Bulletchewer6:	Sep 20th, 2011 at 22:41 GMT	-3 points
	In reality, most of the northern European countries are atheist. Huge list of countries registering less than 50% "Belief in a God" according to Eurobarometer poll 2005: Lithuania, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Hungary, Belgium, Finland, Bulgaria, Iceland, UK, Latvia, Slovenia, France, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic & Estonia.

	zeppelinoid:	Sep 21st, 2011 at 21:47 GMT	3 points
	@Bulletchewer6: Your assertion is total unmitigated rubbish. You have been entirely selective in divulging data from your source. The correct figures of respondants claiming "I don’t believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force" are very much smaller than those suggested by you, with France being the largest at 33% and the lowest of the countries you have mentioned (Latvia) being as low as 10%. In addition the survey has omitted agnostics who are a significant proportion of many of these populations and by definition these people are not atheists. I am not religious but I find atheist fundamentalism (and distortion of the truth) at least as discomforting as religious dogmatism. The regimes in the avowedly atheist regimes of the USSR, China, North Korea and Cambodia managed to persecute at least as many people on religious grounds as the equally odious theocracies of medieval Europe and more modern Islamic countries. If you wish to make a valid point in the future please do not resort to lies or inaccurate statistics.

	british:	Sep 22nd, 2011 at 00:05 GMT	1 point
	@Bulletchewer6: your statement is false.. the highest I see is France, and I'd agree with zeppelinoid and say only about 30% of French are atheist, so that being the highest, none are 50%+ atheist. Besides, you named 10 non Northern European countries in your list...

	MasterNachosII:	Sep 22nd, 2011 at 00:10 GMT	7 points
	This quiz is quite easy if you do this: Is it Scandinavian? If so, Lutheran. If not- Was it a member of the Warsaw Pact, WITHOUT having a significant pontiff having recently been from there? If yes, Orthodox. If not- Is it England? If so, Anglican. If not- Is it 'kind of' in Europe? If so, Muslim. If not- Is it Greece? If so, Orthodox. Is it in SERIOUS debt trouble, without being Greece? If so, Catholic.

	feedthebirds:	Sep 23rd, 2011 at 00:45 GMT	2 points
	awkward moment where you can get 40 countries and not one of them is the country in which you live : WHOOPS

	FibeDaraEggurow:	Sep 26th, 2011 at 04:48 GMT	1 point
	I guess I'll give you Latvia. It depends on the source, the numbers are very close, but if it was me I would give it to the Lutherans because Lutheranism had more widespread political and cultural influence. The Catholics are really just in one area of the country.

	rob89:	Sep 26th, 2011 at 05:13 GMT	1 point
	As a recovering Catholic, I have to admit there's still a part of me that was quite proud how much we (yeah, I still say 'we') win in numbers. Also, very interesting about Armenia. I knew it was the first country to be officially Christian, but I'd assumed it was the Armenian Orthodox Church, affiliated with either Eastern or Oriental Orthodox. Today I have learned something.

	zeppelinoid:	Sep 26th, 2011 at 12:28 GMT	2 points
	@FibeDaraEggurow: I agree that this is close and the source that I have used for the quiz misses out the RCs altogether so I had to look elsewhere. Most sources indicate that there are slightly more Catholics than Lutherans with Orthodox membership being closely behind in third place.

	Bulletchewer6:	Oct 1st, 2011 at 18:16 GMT	-1 points
	@zeppelinoid The stats I quote are not incorrect. It is quite clear that as theism is defined as "the belief in a god or gods" and atheism is "the absence of the belief in a god or gods", then EVERYBODY who did not positively respond to "I believe in a god" is an atheist, as they do not believe in a god. Pretty simple.

	zeppelinoid:	Oct 9th, 2011 at 12:28 GMT	4 points
	@Bulletchewer6: You are making the assumption that people who did not state that they "believe in God" actively believe that there is no God. This is nonsense. Have you never heard of agnosticism which I would suggest is the default position for most people who are not certain of God's existence?

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