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Finland">unaffiliated</a>, 1.1% are <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Orthodox">Orthodox Christians</a>, 0.9% are other Christians and 0.8% follow other religions like <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Folk_religion" title="Folk religion">folk religion</a> etc.<sup id="cite_ref-statfin_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statfin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These statistics do not include, for example, asylum seekers who have not been granted a permanent residence permit.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are two <a href="/wiki/National_church" title="National church">national churches</a> (as opposed to <a href="/wiki/State_religion" title="State religion"><i>state</i> churches</a>): the <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Finland" title="Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland">Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland</a> (Protestant), which is the primary religion representing 65.2% of the population by the end of 2022,<sup id="cite_ref-statfin_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statfin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Orthodox_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish Orthodox Church">Finnish Orthodox Church</a>, to which about 1.1% of the population belongs.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-statfin_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statfin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Those who officially belong to one of the two national churches have part of their taxes turned over to their respective church (approximately 1-2% of income).<sup id="cite_ref-US2022_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US2022-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are also approximately 44,000 followers of Pentecostal Christianity,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and more than 12,000 Catholic Christians in Finland, along with Anglicans, and some various Independent Christian communities. Prior to its Christianisation, beginning in the 11th century, <a href="/wiki/Finnish_paganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish paganism">Finnish paganism</a> was the country's primary religion. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Statistics">Statistics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Statistics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="PieChartTemplate thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px"> <div class="mw-no-invert" style="background-color:white;margin:auto;position:relative;width:200px;height:200px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:100px;border:1px solid black;transform:scaleX(-1)rotate(-90deg)"> <div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:0; top:0; border-width:0 200px 200px 0; 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top:100px; border-width:81.452072707051px 58.013445439185px 0 0; border-top-color:DodgerBlue"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:DodgerBlue"></div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"> <p>Religions in Finland (2022)<sup id="cite_ref-statfin_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statfin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:DodgerBlue; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Finland" title="Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland">Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland</a> (65.15%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Orchid; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_Finland" title="Orthodox Church of Finland">Orthodox Church of Finland</a> (1.05%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:DarkOrchid; color:white;"> </span> Other Christian (0.94%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Chartreuse; color:black;"> </span> Other Religions (0.84%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:Honeydew; color:black;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Irreligion_in_Finland" title="Irreligion in Finland">Unaffiliated</a> (32.02%)</div> </div> </div></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Religion in Finland (Statistics Finland)<sup id="cite_ref-statistics_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statistics-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr style="background:#f0f0f0; text-align:center;"> <th>Year </th> <th>Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland </th> <th>Finnish Orthodox Church </th> <th>Other </th> <th>No religious affiliation </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>1900</td> <td>98.1%</td> <td>1.7%</td> <td>0.2%</td> <td>0.0% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>1950</td> <td>95.0%</td> <td>1.7%</td> <td>0.5%</td> <td>2.8% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>1980</td> <td>90.3%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>0.7%</td> <td>7.8% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>1990</td> <td>87.8%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>0.9%</td> <td>10.2% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2000</td> <td>85.1%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>12.7% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2010</td> <td>78.3%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.4%</td> <td>19.2% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2011</td> <td>77.3%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.5%</td> <td>20.1% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2012</td> <td>76.4%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.5%</td> <td>21.0% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2013</td> <td>75.2%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.5%</td> <td>22.1% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2014</td> <td>73.8%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.6%</td> <td>23.5% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2015</td> <td>73.0%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.6%</td> <td>24.3% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2016</td> <td>72.0%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.6%</td> <td>25.3% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2017</td> <td>70.9%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.6%</td> <td>26.3% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2018</td> <td>69.8%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.7%</td> <td>27.4% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2019</td> <td>68.7%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.7%</td> <td>28.5% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2020</td> <td>67.8%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.7%</td> <td>29.4% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2021</td> <td>66.6%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.8%</td> <td>30.6% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2022</td> <td>65.2%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.8%</td> <td>32.0% </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td>2023</td> <td>63,6%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>1.8%</td> <td>33,6% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Most Finns are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (63,6%).<sup id="cite_ref-statistics_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statistics-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With about 3.6 million members out of a total population of 5.6 million,<sup id="cite_ref-statfin_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statfin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland remains one of the largest Lutheran churches in the world, though its membership is declining. In 2015, <a href="/wiki/Eroakirkosta.fi" title="Eroakirkosta.fi">Eroakirkosta.fi</a>, a website which offers an electronic service for resigning from Finland's national churches, reported that half a million people had resigned their membership in the church since the website was opened in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The number of church members leaving the Church saw a particular large increase during the fall of 2010. This was caused by statements regarding homosexuality and same-sex marriages perceived to be intolerant towards <a href="/wiki/LGBT_people" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT people">LGBT people</a> made by a conservative bishop and a politician representing <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democrats_(Finland)" title="Christian Democrats (Finland)">Christian Democrats</a> in a TV debate on the subject.<sup id="cite_ref-Finns-leave_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Finns-leave-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second largest group – and a rather quickly growing one – of 32.0% by the end of 2022<sup id="cite_ref-statistics_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statistics-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the population is non-religious. A small minority belong to the <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Orthodox_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish Orthodox Church">Finnish Orthodox Church</a> (1.1%) and to the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> (12,434 people or 0.2% of the population).<sup id="cite_ref-diocese-helsinki_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-diocese-helsinki-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> denominations are significantly smaller, as are the <a href="/wiki/Sikhs" title="Sikhs">Sikhs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judaism_in_Finland" class="mw-redirect" title="Judaism in Finland">Jewish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Finland" title="Islam in Finland">Muslim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Finland" title="Buddhism in Finland">Buddhist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hinduism_in_Finland" title="Hinduism in Finland">Hindu</a> and other non-Christian communities (totaling with the Catholics to about 1.8% of the population). </p><p>The main Lutheran and Orthodox churches are constitutional <a href="/wiki/State_church" class="mw-redirect" title="State church">national churches</a> of Finland with special roles in ceremonies and often in school morning prayers. Delegates to Lutheran Church assemblies are selected in church elections every four years. </p><p>The majority of Lutherans attend church only for special occasions like Christmas, Easter, weddings and funerals. The Lutheran Church estimates that approximately 2 percent of its members attend church services weekly. In 2004, the average number of church visits per year by church members is approximately two.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the most recent <a href="/wiki/Eurobarometer" title="Eurobarometer">Eurobarometer Poll</a> (2010),<sup id="cite_ref-EUROBAROMETER_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EUROBAROMETER-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>33% of Finnish citizens "believe there is a God". (In 2005, the figure was 41%)</li> <li>42% "believe there is some sort of spirit or life force". (In 2005, the figure was 41%)</li> <li>22% "do not believe there is any sort of spirit, God, or life force". (In 2005, the figure was 16%)</li></ul> <p>According to Zuckerman (2005), various studies have claimed that 28% of Finns "do not believe in God" and 33 to 60% do not believe in "a personal God".<sup id="cite_ref-zuckerman_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zuckerman-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Christianity">Christianity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lutheranism">Lutheranism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Lutheranism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Finland" title="Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland">Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pet%C3%A4j%C3%A4vesi_Old_Church_from_south.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Pet%C3%A4j%C3%A4vesi_Old_Church_from_south.JPG/220px-Pet%C3%A4j%C3%A4vesi_Old_Church_from_south.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Pet%C3%A4j%C3%A4vesi_Old_Church_from_south.JPG/330px-Pet%C3%A4j%C3%A4vesi_Old_Church_from_south.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Pet%C3%A4j%C3%A4vesi_Old_Church_from_south.JPG/440px-Pet%C3%A4j%C3%A4vesi_Old_Church_from_south.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2129" data-file-height="1603" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Pet%C3%A4j%C3%A4vesi_Old_Church" title="Petäjävesi Old Church">Petäjävesi Old Church</a> is an old Lutheran wooden church and a <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">UNESCO World Heritage site</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2022, the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland had about 3.6 million members, which is 65.2% of the population, registered with a parish. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland is an episcopal church, that is governed by bishops, with a very strong tradition of parish autonomy. It comprises nine dioceses with ten bishops and 384 independent parishes.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The average parish has 7,000 members, with the smallest parishes comprising only a few hundred members and the largest tens of thousands.<sup id="cite_ref-Heino1997_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heino1997-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In recent years many parishes have united in order to safeguard their viability. In addition, municipal mergers have prompted parochial mergers as there may be only one parish, or cluster of parishes, in a given municipality.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Orthodoxy">Orthodoxy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Orthodoxy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_Finland" title="Orthodox Church of Finland">Orthodox Church of Finland</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Uspenski_Cathedral_Helsinki_2012.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Uspenski_Cathedral_Helsinki_2012.jpg/220px-Uspenski_Cathedral_Helsinki_2012.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="256" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Uspenski_Cathedral_Helsinki_2012.jpg/330px-Uspenski_Cathedral_Helsinki_2012.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Uspenski_Cathedral_Helsinki_2012.jpg/440px-Uspenski_Cathedral_Helsinki_2012.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3208" data-file-height="3736" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Uspenski_Cathedral" title="Uspenski Cathedral">Uspenski Cathedral</a> in <a href="/wiki/Helsinki" title="Helsinki">Helsinki</a> belongs to <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Orthodox_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish Orthodox Church">Finnish Orthodox Church</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Finnish Orthodox Church</b> (<a href="/wiki/Finnish_language" title="Finnish language">Finnish</a>: <i lang="fi">Suomen ortodoksinen kirkko</i>; <a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish</a>: <i lang="sv">Ortodoxa kyrkan i Finland</i>), or <b>Orthodox Church of Finland</b>, is an autonomous <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox archdiocese</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarchate_of_Constantinople" title="Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople">Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople</a>. The Church has a legal position as a <a href="/wiki/National_church" title="National church">national church</a> in the country, along with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. With its roots in the medieval <a href="/wiki/Veliky_Novgorod" title="Veliky Novgorod">Novgorodian</a> missionary work in <a href="/wiki/Karelia" title="Karelia">Karelia</a>, the Finnish Orthodox Church was a part of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a> until 1923. Today the church has three dioceses and 60,000 members that account for 1.1 percent of the native population of <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a>. The parish of <a href="/wiki/Helsinki" title="Helsinki">Helsinki</a> has the most adherents. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Catholicism">Catholicism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Catholicism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Finland" title="Catholic Church in Finland">Catholic Church in Finland</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Saint_Henry%27s_Cathedral_Helsinki.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Saint_Henry%27s_Cathedral_Helsinki.jpg/220px-Saint_Henry%27s_Cathedral_Helsinki.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Saint_Henry%27s_Cathedral_Helsinki.jpg/330px-Saint_Henry%27s_Cathedral_Helsinki.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Saint_Henry%27s_Cathedral_Helsinki.jpg/440px-Saint_Henry%27s_Cathedral_Helsinki.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption>St Henry's Cathedral, Catholic Diocese of Helsinki, Finland</figcaption></figure> <p>The Catholic Church in Finland is part of the worldwide <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, under the spiritual leadership of the <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">Pope</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>. As of 2020 there were 16,000 Catholics out of the country's population of 5.5 million.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are estimated to be more than 6,000 Catholic families in the country, about half native Finns and the rest from international communities. </p><p>As of 2018 there are only five Finnish-born priests, and only three of them work in Finland. The current <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Diocese_of_Helsinki" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic Diocese of Helsinki">Bishop of Helsinki</a> is Mons. <a href="/wiki/Raimo_Goyarrola" title="Raimo Goyarrola">Raimo Goyarrola</a> (appointed 29 September 2023), who succeeded Bishop <a href="/wiki/Teemu_Sippo" title="Teemu Sippo">Teemu Sippo</a> after he abdicated in May 2019 due to old age. Bishop Sippo is the first Finn to serve as a Catholic bishop in over 500 years. Currently there are more than 30 priests working in Finland from different countries. Due to the small number of Catholics in Finland, the whole country forms a single diocese, the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Diocese_of_Helsinki" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic Diocese of Helsinki">Catholic Diocese of Helsinki</a>. The Catholic Church in Finland is active in <a href="/wiki/Ecumenism" title="Ecumenism">ecumenical</a> matters and is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Ecumenical_Council" title="Finnish Ecumenical Council">Finnish Ecumenical Council</a>, even though the worldwide Catholic Church is not a member of the <a href="/wiki/World_Council_of_Churches" title="World Council of Churches">World Council of Churches</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_Protestant">Other Protestant</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other Protestant"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Baptist">Baptist</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Baptist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Baptists_in_Finland" title="Baptists in Finland">Baptists in Finland</a></div> <p><b>Baptists in Finland</b> have existed since the middle of the 19th century<sup id="cite_ref-:0_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and are part of the <a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptist</a> branch of <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> Christianity. They were among the early <a href="/wiki/Free_church" title="Free church">free churches</a> in Finland. There are three church associations, the <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Baptist_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish Baptist Union">Finnish Baptist Church</a> (<a href="/wiki/Finnish_language" title="Finnish language">Finnish</a>: <i lang="fi">Suomen Baptistikirkko</i>), <a href="/wiki/Swedish_Baptist_Union_of_Finland" title="Swedish Baptist Union of Finland">Swedish Baptist Union of Finland</a> (<a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish</a>: <i lang="sv">Finlands svenska baptistsamfund</i>), and two congregations belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Seventh_Day_Baptists" title="Seventh Day Baptists">Seventh Day Baptists</a>. Additionally, there are several independent Baptist churches. The Baptist movement came to Finland from Sweden in the mid-1800s.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Swedish Baptist Union of Finland includes 13 congregations with approximately 1000 members.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Finnish Baptist Church consists of 14 congregations with about 1500 members.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Seventh Day Baptist Fellowship includes two congregations with 35 members. The membership and congregation numbers of the independent Baptist churches are unknown. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Minor_religions">Minor religions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Minor religions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neopaganism">Neopaganism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Neopaganism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Finnish_neopaganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish neopaganism">Finnish neopaganism</a></div> <p><b>Finnish Neopaganism</b>, or the <b>Finnish native faith</b> (<a href="/wiki/Finnish_language" title="Finnish language">Finnish</a>: <i lang="fi">Suomenusko</i>: 'Finnish Faith') is the contemporary <a href="/wiki/Neopaganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Neopaganism">Neopagan revival</a> of <a href="/wiki/Finnish_paganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish paganism">Finnish paganism</a>, the pre-Christian <a href="/wiki/Polytheistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Polytheistic">polytheistic</a> <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_religion" title="Ethnic religion">ethnic religion</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Finns" title="Finns">Finns</a>. A precursor movement was the <span title="Finnish-language text"><i lang="fi">Ukonusko</i></span> ('Ukko's Faith', revolving around the god <a href="/wiki/Ukko" title="Ukko">Ukko</a>) of the early 20th century. The main problem in the revival of Finnish paganism is the nature of pre-Christian Finnish culture, which relied on oral tradition and of which very little is left. The primary sources concerning Finnish native culture are written by latter-era Christians. There are two main organisations of the religion, the Association of Finnish Native Religion (<span title="Finnish-language text"><i lang="fi">Suomalaisen kansanuskon yhdistys ry</i></span>) based in Helsinki and officially registered since 2002, and the Pole Star Association (<span title="Finnish-language text"><i lang="fi">Taivaannaula ry</i></span>) headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Turku" title="Turku">Turku</a> with branches in many cities, founded and officially registered in 2007. The Association of Finnish Native Religion also caters to <a href="/wiki/Karelians" title="Karelians">Karelians</a> and is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Uralic_Communion" class="mw-redirect" title="Uralic Communion">Uralic Communion</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Buddhism">Buddhism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Buddhism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Finland" title="Buddhism in Finland">Buddhism in Finland</a></div> <p><b>Buddhism in Finland</b> represents a very small percentage of that nation's religious practices. In 2013 there were 5,266 followers of Buddhism in Finland, 0.1% of the population.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are currently 12 Finnish cities that have Buddhist temples: in Helsinki, <a href="/wiki/Hyvink%C3%A4%C3%A4" title="Hyvinkää">Hyvinkää</a>, <a href="/wiki/H%C3%A4meenlinna" title="Hämeenlinna">Hämeenlinna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jyv%C3%A4skyl%C3%A4" title="Jyväskylä">Jyväskylä</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kouvola" title="Kouvola">Kouvola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kuopio" title="Kuopio">Kuopio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lahti" title="Lahti">Lahti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lappeenranta" title="Lappeenranta">Lappeenranta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pori" title="Pori">Pori</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salo,_Finland" title="Salo, Finland">Salo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tampere" title="Tampere">Tampere</a> and <a href="/wiki/Turku" title="Turku">Turku</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bahá'í_Faith"><span id="Bah.C3.A1.27.C3.AD_Faith"></span>Bahá'í Faith</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Bahá'í Faith"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith_in_Finland" title="Baháʼí Faith in Finland">Baháʼí Faith in Finland</a></div> <p>While no statistics on the numbers of Baha'is have been released, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland estimated the 2004 population of Bahá'ís to be approximately 500. <a href="/wiki/Operation_World" title="Operation World">Operation World</a>, another Christian organization, estimated 0.01%, also about 500 Bahá'ís, in 2003. </p><p>In 2020 there was an estimate of 1668 Baha'í followers, according to the <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Religion_Data_Archives" title="Association of Religion Data Archives">Association of Religion Data Archives</a> (relying on <a href="/wiki/World_Christian_Encyclopedia" title="World Christian Encyclopedia">World Christian Encyclopedia</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hinduism">Hinduism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Hinduism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hinduism_in_Finland" title="Hinduism in Finland">Hinduism in Finland</a></div> <p><b>Hinduism</b> is a very minor <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religious</a> faith in Finland. There are estimated to be around 5,000 Hindus in Finland, mostly from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Finland acquired a significant <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> population for the first time around the turn of the 21st century due to the recruitment of <a href="/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">information technology</a> workers from India by companies such as <a href="/wiki/Nokia" title="Nokia">Nokia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, Hindu leaders in Finland protested the inclusion of a photograph that "denigrates Hinduism" in an exhibit at the <a href="/wiki/Kiasma_Museum_of_Contemporary_Art" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art">Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art</a>. The museum later removed the picture from its website.<sup id="cite_ref-hinduphoto1_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hinduphoto1-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islam">Islam</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Islam"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Finland" title="Islam in Finland">Islam in Finland</a></div> <p>The first <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslims</a> were <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Tatars" title="Finnish Tatars">Tatars</a> who immigrated mainly between 1870 and 1920. After that there were decades with generally a small number of <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_Finland" title="Immigration to Finland">immigration in Finland</a>. Since the late 20th century the number of Muslims in Finland has increased rapidly due to immigration. </p><p>According to the Finland official census (2022), there are 22,261 people in Finland belonging to registered Muslim communities.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the vast majority of Muslims in Finland do not belong to any registered communities. It is estimated that there are between 120,000 and 130,000 Muslims in Finland (2.3%).<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Judaism">Judaism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Judaism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Finland" title="History of the Jews in Finland">History of the Jews in Finland</a></div> <p><b>Finnish Jews</b> are <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jews</a> who are <a href="/wiki/Citizen" class="mw-redirect" title="Citizen">citizens</a> of <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a>. The country is home to approximately 1,000 Jews in 2022,<sup id="cite_ref-statfin_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statfin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who mostly live in Helsinki. Jews came to Finland as traders and merchants from other parts of Europe. During the <a href="/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War" title="1948 Arab–Israeli War">1948 Arab–Israeli War</a>, about 28 Finnish Jews, mostly Finnish Army veterans, fought for the <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">State of Israel</a>. After Israel's establishment, Finland had a high rate of immigration to Israel (known as <i><a href="/wiki/Aliyah" title="Aliyah">aliyah</a></i>), which depleted Finland's Jewish community. The community was somewhat revitalized when some Soviet Jews immigrated to Finland following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The number of Jews in Finland in 2010 was approximately 1,500, of whom 1,200 lived in Helsinki, about 200 in Turku, and about 50 in <a href="/wiki/Tampere" title="Tampere">Tampere</a>. Jews are well integrated into Finnish society and are represented in nearly all sectors. Most Finnish Jews are corporate employees or self-employed professionals. Most Finnish Jews speak <a href="/wiki/Finnish_language" title="Finnish language">Finnish</a> or <a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish</a> as their <a href="/wiki/Mother_tongue" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother tongue">mother tongue</a>. <a href="/wiki/Yiddish" title="Yiddish">Yiddish</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hebrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew">Hebrew</a> are also spoken in the community. Jews, like Finland's other traditional minorities as well as immigrant groups, are represented on the advisory board for Ethnic Relations (<a href="/wiki/ETNO" class="mw-redirect" title="ETNO">ETNO</a>).There are two synagogues: <a href="/wiki/Helsinki_Synagogue" title="Helsinki Synagogue">one in Helsinki</a> and <a href="/wiki/Turku_Synagogue" title="Turku Synagogue">one in Turku</a>. Helsinki also has a <a href="/wiki/Jewish_day_school" title="Jewish day school">Jewish day school</a>, which serves about 110 students (many of them the children of <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israelis</a> working in Finland); and a <a href="/wiki/Chabad_Lubavitch" class="mw-redirect" title="Chabad Lubavitch">Chabad Lubavitch</a> rabbi is based there. Tampere previously had an organized Jewish community, but it stopped functioning in 1981. The other two cities continue to run their community organizations. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population_register">Population register</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Population register"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Membership_in_the_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Finland_by_region.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Membership_in_the_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Finland_by_region.png/220px-Membership_in_the_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Finland_by_region.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Membership_in_the_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Finland_by_region.png/330px-Membership_in_the_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Finland_by_region.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Membership_in_the_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Finland_by_region.png/440px-Membership_in_the_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_Finland_by_region.png 2x" data-file-width="2148" data-file-height="1950" /></a><figcaption>Percentage of the population in Finland that belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (2021)<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Traditionally, the church has played a very important role in maintaining a population register in Finland. The vicars have maintained a church record of persons born, married and deceased in their parishes since at least the 1660s, constituting one of the oldest population records in Europe. This system was in place for over 300 years. It was only replaced by a computerised central population database in 1971, while the two national churches continued to maintain population registers in co-operation with the government's local register offices until 1999, when the churches' task was limited to only maintaining a membership register.<sup id="cite_ref-vrk-history_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vrk-history-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 1919 and 1970, a separate Civil Register was maintained of those who had no affiliation with either of the national churches.<sup id="cite_ref-vrk-history_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vrk-history-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Currently, the centralised Population Information System records the person's affiliation with a legally recognised religious community, if any.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2003, the new Freedom of Religion Act made it possible to resign from religious communities in writing. That is, by letter, or any written form acceptable to authorities. This is also extended to <a href="/wiki/Email" title="Email">email</a> by the 2003 electronic communications in the public sector act.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Resignation by email became possible in 2005 in most magistrates. <a href="/wiki/Eroakirkosta.fi" title="Eroakirkosta.fi">Eroakirkosta.fi</a>, an Internet campaign promoting resignation from religious communities, challenged the rest of the magistrates through a letter to the <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Ombudsman" title="Parliamentary Ombudsman">parliamentary ombudsman</a>. In November 2006, the ombudsman recommended that all magistrates should accept resignations from religious communities via email.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite the recommendation by the ombudsman, the magistrates of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna do not accept church membership resignations sent via the Eroakirkosta.fi service.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Finland&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output 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