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title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a> is 69.31% <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a>, 17.19% <a href="/wiki/Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian">Christian</a>, 11.25% other religious beliefs and 2.25% no religious belief.<sup id="cite_ref-2021EthnicStatistics_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021EthnicStatistics-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2009_Census_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2009_Census-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other figures suggest that 24% of the population is Orthodox, 1% is either Protestant or Catholic and 1% belongs to other Christian denominations.<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>In 2022, the government considered several religions as 'traditional', including <a href="/wiki/Hanafi" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanafi">Hanafi school</a> of Sunni Islam, the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a>, Greek and Roman Catholicism, <a href="/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheranism</a>, and Judaism.<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> </p><p>In 2009, the majority of Christian citizens were <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Belarusians" title="Belarusians">Belarusians</a>, who belong to the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church_in_Kazakhstan" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Orthodox Church in Kazakhstan">Eastern Orthodox Church in Kazakhstan</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Patriarchate" class="mw-redirect" title="Moscow Patriarchate">Moscow Patriarchate</a>. About 1.5 percent of the population is ethnically <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German</a>, most of whom are <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Kazakhstan" title="Catholic Church in Kazakhstan">Catholic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Lutheran" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran">Lutheran</a>. Other Christian groups included <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian">Presbyterians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventists" class="mw-redirect" title="Seventh-day Adventists">Seventh-day Adventists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a> (<a href="/wiki/Union_of_Evangelical_Christian_Baptists_of_Kazakhstan" title="Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists of Kazakhstan">Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists of Kazakhstan</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Pentecostals" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentecostals">Pentecostals</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-SECOND_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SECOND-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Methodists" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodists">Methodists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mennonites" title="Mennonites">Mennonites</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mormons" title="Mormons">Mormons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-REPORT_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-REPORT-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ethnicity_in_2009">Ethnicity in 2009</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christianity_in_Kazakhstan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Ethnicity in 2009"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the 2009 Census, there were 4,214,232 Christians in Kazakhstan. Their ethnic affiliation is as follows:<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> </p> <ul><li>Russians - 3,476,748 (<a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Kazakhstan" title="Demographics of Kazakhstan">91.6% of the ethnic Russians</a>)</li> <li>Ukrainians - 302,199 (90.7% of Ukrainians)</li> <li>Germans - 145,556 (81.6%)</li> <li>Belarusians - 59,936 (90.2%)</li> <li>Koreans - 49,543 (49.4%)</li> <li>Kazakhs - 39,172 (0.4%)</li> <li>Polish - 30,675 (90.1%)</li> <li>Tatars - 20,913 (10.2%)</li> <li>Azeris - 2,139 (2.5%)</li> <li>Uzbeks - 1,794 (0.4%)</li> <li>Uighurs - 1,142 (0.5%)</li> <li>Chechens - 940 (3.0%)</li> <li>Tajiks - 331 (0.9%)</li> <li>Turkish - 290 (0.3%)</li> <li>Kyrgyz - 206 (0.9%)</li> <li>Kurds - 203 (0.5%)</li> <li>Dungan - 191 (0.4%)</li> <li>Other minorities - 82,254 (52.3%)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christianity_in_Kazakhstan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%B2_%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B8" class="extiw" title="ru:История христианства в Центральной Азии">ru:История христианства в Центральной Азии</a> and <a href="/wiki/Naimans#Religion" title="Naimans">Naimans § Religion</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zakaukazie-Turkestan1903.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Zakaukazie-Turkestan1903.jpg/220px-Zakaukazie-Turkestan1903.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Zakaukazie-Turkestan1903.jpg/330px-Zakaukazie-Turkestan1903.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Zakaukazie-Turkestan1903.jpg/440px-Zakaukazie-Turkestan1903.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3504" data-file-height="2550" /></a><figcaption>Map from a 1903 Polish encyclopedia showing the Naiman people living north of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Balkhash" title="Lake Balkhash">Lake Balkhash</a> in eastern Kazakhstan</figcaption></figure> <p>Before the conquest of <a href="/wiki/Genghis_Khan" title="Genghis Khan">Genghis Khan</a> there used to be a minority of <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_East" title="Church of the East">Nestorians</a> in the Kazakh region. A bishop's see existed in the town of <a href="/wiki/Merv" title="Merv">Merv</a> in the year 334 and Nestorians were in the country when <a href="/wiki/Marco_Polo" title="Marco Polo">Marco Polo</a> arrived in the late 13th century.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><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> </p><p>By the time Kazakhstan was conquered by Genghis Khan, most of the Naimans were Christians. They remained so after the Mongol conquest and were among the second wave of Christians to enter China with <a href="/wiki/Kublai_Khan" title="Kublai Khan">Kublai Khan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, the Naimans who settled in the Western Khanates of the Mongol Empire were all eventually converted to Islam. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Franciscan" class="mw-redirect" title="Franciscan">Franciscan</a> monk, <a href="/wiki/William_of_Rubruck" title="William of Rubruck">William of Rubruck</a> travelled around Kazakhstan in 1254. He met <a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6ngke_Khan" title="Möngke Khan">Möngke Khan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sartaq_Khan" title="Sartaq Khan">Sartaq Khan</a> (great-grandson of Genghis Khan); both men converted to Christianity. A few years later <a href="/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_III" title="Pope Nicholas III">Pope Nicholas III</a> established the Diocese of Kipciak.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Russian Orthodoxy arrived in the country in the 18th and 19th centuries.<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>Incorporation into the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> led to decades of Communist Party controls including confiscation of church property, control of education, and the detention and execution of clergy. Political independence in 1991 led to more people taking an interest in religion, as they were now able to read and discuss matters of spirituality; this also led to a rise in the number of citizens identifying as Christians in the 1990s and the early 2000s.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Converts_to_Christianity">Converts to Christianity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christianity_in_Kazakhstan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Converts to Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A 2015 study estimates that some 50,000 Christians from a Muslim background reside in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Christian mission group <a href="/wiki/Open_Doors" title="Open Doors">Open Doors</a> ranks Kazakhstan as the 47th worst country in the world to be a Christian.<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> </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=Christianity_in_Kazakhstan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Kazakhstan" title="Religion in Kazakhstan">Religion in Kazakhstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholicism_in_Kazakhstan" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholicism in Kazakhstan">Catholicism in Kazakhstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy_in_Kazakhstan" 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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Early history</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tiele_people" title="Tiele people">Tele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rouran_Khaganate" title="Rouran Khaganate">Rouran Khaganate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrks" title="Göktürks">Göktürks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kangar_union" title="Kangar union">Kangar union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kimek_Khanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Kimek Khanate">Kimek Khanate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karluks" title="Karluks">Karluks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oghuz_Yabgu_State" title="Oghuz Yabgu State">Oghuz Yabgu State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xueyantuo" title="Xueyantuo">Xueyantuo Khaganate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uyghur_Khaganate" title="Uyghur Khaganate">Uyghur Khaganate</a></li> 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