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Belgium's policy <a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" title="Separation of church and state">separates the state from the churches</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Belgium" title="Freedom of religion in Belgium">freedom of religion</a> of the citizens is guaranteed by the country's <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Belgium" title="Constitution of Belgium">constitution</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gent-Sint-Baafskathedraal_vom_Belfried_aus_gesehen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Gent-Sint-Baafskathedraal_vom_Belfried_aus_gesehen.jpg/220px-Gent-Sint-Baafskathedraal_vom_Belfried_aus_gesehen.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Gent-Sint-Baafskathedraal_vom_Belfried_aus_gesehen.jpg/330px-Gent-Sint-Baafskathedraal_vom_Belfried_aus_gesehen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Gent-Sint-Baafskathedraal_vom_Belfried_aus_gesehen.jpg/440px-Gent-Sint-Baafskathedraal_vom_Belfried_aus_gesehen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2667" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Saint_Bavo%27s_Cathedral,_Ghent" title="Saint Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent">Saint Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent</a></figcaption></figure> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Eurobarometer" title="Eurobarometer">Eurobarometer</a> poll carried out by the <a href="/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Commission</a> in 2021, the share of Christians was 49%, with Catholicism being the largest denomination at 44%. <a href="/wiki/Protestants" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestants">Protestants</a> and other Christians comprised 4% and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox Christians</a> comprised 1%. Non-religious people comprised 41% of the population and were divided between those who primarily identified as <a href="/wiki/Atheists" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheists">atheists</a> (15%) or as agnostics (26%). A further 2% of the population was <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a>, with the remainder belonging to other religious or unspecified groups. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Beliefs_and_practices">Beliefs and practices</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Beliefs and practices"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to a 2010 <a href="/wiki/Eurobarometer" title="Eurobarometer">Eurobarometer</a> poll:<sup id="cite_ref-Eurobarometer341_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eurobarometer341-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b>37%</b> of Belgian citizens believe there is a god.</li> <li><b>31%</b> believe there is some sort of spirit or life force.</li> <li><b>27%</b> do not believe there is any sort of spirit, God, or life force.</li> <li><b>5%</b> declined to answer.</li></ul> <p>Some religious people dispute these precise figures, as it is difficult to determine the number of Belgian Christians that believe in a personal deity. What is also unclear is the number of registered Belgian Catholics with <a href="/wiki/Deistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Deistic">deistic</a> beliefs or who periodically attend small <a href="/wiki/Evangelical" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical">Evangelical</a> churches. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chronological_statistics">Chronological statistics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Chronological statistics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align: center;"> <th>Religious<br />group </th> <th>Population <br />% <b>1981</b><sup id="cite_ref-Eurel_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eurel-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Population <br />% <b>2009</b><sup id="cite_ref-Eurel_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eurel-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Population <br />% <b>2015</b><sup id="cite_ref-EB2015A_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2015A-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-EB2015_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2015-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Population <br />% <b>2018</b><sup id="cite_ref-EB2018_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2018-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Population <br />% <b>2019</b><sup id="cite_ref-EB2019_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2019-8"><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> </th> <th>Population <br />% <b>2021</b><sup id="cite_ref-EB2021_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2021-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:Navy; color:white">Christianity </th> <td>74.5%</td> <td>52.5%</td> <td>59%</td> <td>63% </td> <td>60%</td> <td>49% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:DarkOrchid;"><small><i>Catholicism</i></small> </th> <td><small><i>72.0%</i></small></td> <td><small><i>50.0%</i></small></td> <td><small><i>51%</i></small></td> <td><small><i>57%</i></small> </td> <td><small><i>54%</i></small></td> <td><small><i>44%</i></small> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:DeepSkyBlue;"><small><i>Protestantism and other Christians</i></small> </th> <td rowspan="2"><small><i>2.5%</i></small></td> <td rowspan="2"><small><i>2.5%</i></small></td> <td><small><i>6%</i></small></td> <td><small><i>5%</i></small> </td> <td><small><i>5%</i></small></td> <td><small><i>4%</i></small> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:Orchid;"><small><i>Orthodox Christianity</i></small> </th> <td><small><i>2%</i></small></td> <td><small><i>1%</i></small> </td> <td><small><i>1%</i></small></td> <td><small><i>1%</i></small> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:Green; color:white;">Islam </th> <td>3.0%</td> <td>5.0%</td> <td>5%</td> <td>8% </td> <td>5%</td> <td>2% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:Blue; color:white;">Judaism </th> <td>0.4%</td> <td>0.4%</td> <td>–</td> <td>– </td> <td>–</td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:Yellow;">Buddhism </th> <td>–</td> <td>0.3%</td> <td>–</td> <td>– </td> <td>–</td> <td>1% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:Chartreuse;">Other religions and unspecified including "Refusal to answer" and "Do not know" </th> <td>–</td> <td>–</td> <td>5%</td> <td>– </td> <td>4%</td> <td>7% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:Black; color:white;">Atheism </th> <td>2.5%</td> <td>9.2%</td> <td>14%</td> <td>9% </td> <td>10%</td> <td>15% </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:Honeydew;">Not religious </th> <td>21.5%</td> <td>32.6%</td> <td>17%</td> <td>20% </td> <td>21%</td> <td>26% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>An online <a href="/wiki/Ipsos" title="Ipsos">Ipsos</a> survey conducted between 20 January and 3 February 2023 on a representative sample of Belgians aged 16 to 74 found that 47% had no religion, 44% was Christian, 4% was Muslim and 2% followed an other religion. The remaining 3% refused to answer. The Christians were further subdivided into 38% of total respondents being Catholic and 5% being other Christians. The sample size was more than 500 people and the confidence interval was +/- 5 percentage points.<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> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government_and_religion">Government and religion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Government and religion"><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">See also: <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Belgium" title="Freedom of religion in Belgium">Freedom of religion in Belgium</a></div> <p>The Belgian constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the government generally respects this right in practice. However, government officials have the authority to research and monitor religious groups that are not officially recognised. There are a few reports of societal abuses or discrimination based on religious belief or practice, and some reports of discrimination against minority religious groups. </p><p>Belgian law officially recognizes many religions, including Catholicism, Protestantism, <a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a>, Islam, Judaism, and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">Eastern Orthodoxy</a>, as well as non-religious philosophical organizations (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>: <i>vrijzinnige levensbeschouwelijke organisaties</i>; French: <i>organizations laïques</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-berkley_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-berkley-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> is in the process<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="This was written in 2008. Needs updating. (December 2023)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> of being recognized under the secular organization standard. Official recognition means that priests (called "counselors" within the secular organizations) receive a state stipend. Also, parents can choose any recognized denomination to provide religious education to their children if they attend a state school. Adherents to religions that are not officially recognized are not denied the right to practice their religion but do not receive state stipends. </p><p>After attaining autonomy from the federal government in religious matters, the <a href="/wiki/Flemish_Parliament" title="Flemish Parliament">Flemish Parliament</a> passed a regional decree installing democratically elected church councils for all recognised religious denominations and making them subject to the same administrative rules as local government bodies, with important repercussions for financial accounting and <a href="/wiki/Open_government" title="Open government">open government</a>. In 2006, however, Catholic bishops still appointed candidates to the Catholic Church councils because they had not decided on the criteria for eligibility; they were afraid that candidates might be merely baptized Catholics. By 2008, however, the bishops decided that candidates for the church councils had only to prove that they were over 18, a member of the parish church serving the town or village in which they lived, and baptized Catholic.<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>In 2022, the country was scored 3 out of 4 for religious freedom.<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="Religions">Religions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Religions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Christianity">Christianity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Catholicism">Catholicism</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=6" 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_Belgium" title="Catholic Church in Belgium">Catholic Church in Belgium</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Br%C3%BCssel,_Kirche_Notre-Dame_du_Sablon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Br%C3%BCssel%2C_Kirche_Notre-Dame_du_Sablon.jpg/220px-Br%C3%BCssel%2C_Kirche_Notre-Dame_du_Sablon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Br%C3%BCssel%2C_Kirche_Notre-Dame_du_Sablon.jpg/330px-Br%C3%BCssel%2C_Kirche_Notre-Dame_du_Sablon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Br%C3%BCssel%2C_Kirche_Notre-Dame_du_Sablon.jpg/440px-Br%C3%BCssel%2C_Kirche_Notre-Dame_du_Sablon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4800" data-file-height="3954" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Our_Blessed_Lady_of_the_Sablon" title="Church of Our Blessed Lady of the Sablon">Church of Our Blessed Lady of the Sablon</a> in Brussels</figcaption></figure> <p>Catholicism has traditionally been Belgium's majority religion, with particular strength in Flanders. However, by 2009, Sunday <a href="/wiki/Church_attendance" title="Church attendance">church attendance</a> was 5.4% in Flanders, down from 12.7% in 1998.<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> Nationwide, Sunday church attendance was 5% in 2009, down from 11.2% in 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-brusselnieuws1_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brusselnieuws1-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2015, 52.9% Belgian population claimed to belong to the Catholic Church.<sup id="cite_ref-EB2015_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2015-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Ipsos, only 41% of the working-age, internet connected people declared to be Catholics.<sup id="cite_ref-Ipsos2017_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ipsos2017-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Until 1998, the Catholic Church annually published key figures such as Sunday <a href="/wiki/Mass_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Mass in the Catholic Church">mass</a> attendance and the number of baptized children. In 2006, it announced that mass attendance for the Christmas period was 11.5%, and weekly mass attendance (not only on Sundays) was 7%,<sup id="cite_ref-nieuwsblad1_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nieuwsblad1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for the Flanders region. Since 2000, Sunday church attendance in Flanders has dropped by an average of 0.5%–1% each year.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the years 2010 to 2016, 12,442 people in Flanders formally left the Catholic Church.<sup id="cite_ref-ontdopen2016_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ontdopen2016-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The “Catholic Church in Belgium 2023” report said that 50% of Belgium’s population identified as Catholic in 2022 down from 53% in 2017 with 8.9% attending Mass at least once a month.<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> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Protestantism">Protestantism</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Protestantism"><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:Liege_Eglise_de_la_Redemption_R01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Liege_Eglise_de_la_Redemption_R01.jpg/220px-Liege_Eglise_de_la_Redemption_R01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Liege_Eglise_de_la_Redemption_R01.jpg/330px-Liege_Eglise_de_la_Redemption_R01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Liege_Eglise_de_la_Redemption_R01.jpg/440px-Liege_Eglise_de_la_Redemption_R01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3841" data-file-height="2663" /></a><figcaption>Church of Redemption, a 1930s Protestant church in Quai Godefroid Kurth, Liège</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1566, at the peak of Belgian <a href="/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Reformation</a>, there were an estimated 300,000 Protestants, or 20% of the Belgian population.<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 Spanish reconquest of the Southern Netherlands in the <a href="/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War" title="Eighty Years' War">Eighty Years' War</a> prompted most of the Belgian Protestants to flee to the north or convert, causing the region to again be overwhelmingly Catholic. As of 2017, Protestantism represented 4% of the total population, according to Pew Research.<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> </p><p>The Administrative Council of Protestant and Evangelical Religion in Belgium is a coordinating group that mediates between many Protestant groups and the government. The largest Protestant denomination is the <a href="/wiki/United_Protestant_Church_in_Belgium" title="United Protestant Church in Belgium">United Protestant Church in Belgium</a>, with some 138 affiliated churches.<sup id="cite_ref-godwin_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-godwin-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Belgium had thirteen <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican</a> churches as of 2012,<sup id="cite_ref-godwin_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-godwin-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including the <a href="/wiki/Pro-cathedral" title="Pro-cathedral">pro-cathedral</a>, <a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity,_Brussels" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy Trinity, Brussels">Holy Trinity, Brussels</a>. They are part of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Diocese_in_Europe" title="Diocese in Europe">Diocese in Europe</a>, and of the <a href="/wiki/Convocation_of_Episcopal_Churches_in_Europe" title="Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe">Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pro-cathedral_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pro-cathedral-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Orthodox_Christianity">Orthodox Christianity</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Orthodox Christianity"><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:Lampernisse_-_Orthodox_church_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Lampernisse_-_Orthodox_church_1.jpg/220px-Lampernisse_-_Orthodox_church_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Lampernisse_-_Orthodox_church_1.jpg/330px-Lampernisse_-_Orthodox_church_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Lampernisse_-_Orthodox_church_1.jpg/440px-Lampernisse_-_Orthodox_church_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>Russian Orthodox church in <a href="/wiki/Lampernisse" title="Lampernisse">Lampernisse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diksmuide" title="Diksmuide">Diksmuide</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Christians" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Orthodox Christians">Eastern Orthodox Christians</a> made up 1.6% of the total Belgian population in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-EB2015_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2015-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The region with the greatest proportion of Eastern Orthodox Christians was the <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Bruxelles-Capital Region</a>, in which they formed 8.3% of the population.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ipsos' survey in 2016 found that Orthodox Christianity was the religion of about 1% of the working-age, internet connected Belgians.<sup id="cite_ref-Ipsos2017_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ipsos2017-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Eastern Orthodox Church in Belgium is subdivided into several canonical jurisdictions: <a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarchate_of_Constantinople" title="Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople">Ecumenical</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serbian_Orthodox_Eparchy_of_Western_Europe" title="Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western Europe">Serbian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Orthodox_Archdiocese_of_Western_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Western Europe">Romanian</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Orthodox_Church" title="Bulgarian Orthodox Church">Bulgarian</a>. </p><p>There are significant <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian communities</a> that reside in Belgium, many of them are descendants of traders who settled during the 19th century. Most Armenian Belgians are adherents of the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Apostolic_Church" title="Armenian Apostolic Church">Armenian Apostolic Church</a>, with smaller numbers belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Catholic_Church" title="Armenian Catholic Church">Armenian Catholic Church</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Evangelical_Church" title="Armenian Evangelical Church">Armenian Evangelical Church</a>. These churches have not yet received official recognition. </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_Belgium&action=edit&section=9" 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_Belgium" title="Islam in Belgium">Islam in Belgium</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Moskee_Diyanet_Eisden_Maasmechelen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Moskee_Diyanet_Eisden_Maasmechelen.jpg/170px-Moskee_Diyanet_Eisden_Maasmechelen.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Moskee_Diyanet_Eisden_Maasmechelen.jpg/255px-Moskee_Diyanet_Eisden_Maasmechelen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Moskee_Diyanet_Eisden_Maasmechelen.jpg/340px-Moskee_Diyanet_Eisden_Maasmechelen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3106" data-file-height="2829" /></a><figcaption>Mosque in <a href="/wiki/Maasmechelen" title="Maasmechelen">Maasmechelen</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 2015, according to the Eurobarometer survey made by the <a href="/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Commission</a>, 5.2% of the total Belgian population was <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB2015_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2015-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2016 study, Ipsos found that 3% of the working-age, internet connected Belgian population declaring to be believers in Islam.<sup id="cite_ref-Ipsos2017_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ipsos2017-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2015, it was estimated that 7% of the Belgians (781,887) were Muslims, including 329,749 in Flanders (forming 5.1% of the region's population), 174,136 in Wallonia (4.9%), and 277,867 in Brussels (23.6%).<sup id="cite_ref-npdata.be_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npdata.be-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<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_Belgium&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Judaism"><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:Synagogue_de_Bruxelles.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Synagogue_de_Bruxelles.jpg/170px-Synagogue_de_Bruxelles.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Synagogue_de_Bruxelles.jpg/255px-Synagogue_de_Bruxelles.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Synagogue_de_Bruxelles.jpg/340px-Synagogue_de_Bruxelles.jpg 2x" data-file-width="807" data-file-height="1077" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Great_Synagogue_of_Europe" title="Great Synagogue of Europe">Great Synagogue of Europe</a> in Brussels</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output 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You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2023</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <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_Belgium" title="History of the Jews in Belgium">History of the Jews in Belgium</a></div> <p>There is a small but long-standing Jewish community concentrated in <a href="/wiki/Antwerp" title="Antwerp">Antwerp</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_Belgium&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Buddhism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eurobarometer 2015 found only 0.2% of the total Belgian population declaring to be <a href="/wiki/Buddhist" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhist">Buddhist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB2015_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB2015-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite that, one year later Ipsos found that 2% of the working-age, internet connected Belgians were Buddhists.<sup id="cite_ref-Ipsos2017_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ipsos2017-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Confucianism">Confucianism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Confucianism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to Ipsos, 1% of the working-age, internet-connected Belgians declared that they believed in Confucianism.<sup id="cite_ref-Ipsos2017_16-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ipsos2017-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This segment of the population may include many – if not all – the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_people_in_Belgium" title="Chinese people in Belgium">Chinese communities in Belgium</a>. </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_Belgium&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Hinduism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hinduism forms a negligible but growing minority in Belgium. In 2006, there were about 6,500 Hindus in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-Department_Of_State._The_Office_of_Electronic_Information_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Department_Of_State._The_Office_of_Electronic_Information-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> this increased to 7,901 Hindus in 2015<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> and 10,000 in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The majority of Hindus in Belgium originate from <a href="/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a>, some come from diamond trading communities in India, and some are native converts, mostly of the <a href="/wiki/ISKON" class="mw-redirect" title="ISKON">ISKON</a> movement.<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><sup id="cite_ref-Department_Of_State._The_Office_of_Electronic_Information_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Department_Of_State._The_Office_of_Electronic_Information-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hindus in Belgium in 2023 push to be recognized as an official religion in Belgium.<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> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Antoinism">Antoinism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Antoinism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Antoinism" title="Antoinism">Antoinism</a> is a Christian-inspired <a href="/wiki/New_religious_movement" title="New religious movement">new religious movement</a> which was created by Louis-Joseph Antoine (1846–1912). It remains the only significant such movement to originate in Belgium and has adherents in France and elsewhere. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jainism">Jainism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Jainism"><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/Jainism_in_Belgium" title="Jainism in Belgium">Jainism in Belgium</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Indian_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian religion">Indian religion</a> which has around 2,000 adherents in Belgium (as of 2020), consisting mainly of Indian migrants who specialize in the diamond trade within <a href="/wiki/Antwerp" title="Antwerp">Antwerp</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Jain_temple,_Antwerp" class="mw-redirect" title="Jain temple, Antwerp">Shankheswar Parshvanath Jain temple</a>, which is located in the Antwerpian municipality of <a href="/wiki/Wilrijk" title="Wilrijk">Wilrijk</a>, remains the only <a href="/wiki/Jain_temple" title="Jain temple">Jain temple</a> within <a href="/wiki/Continental_Europe" title="Continental Europe">continental Europe</a>.<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> </p> <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=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: History"><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:Lage_Landen_(Frankische_Tijd).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Lage_Landen_%28Frankische_Tijd%29.svg/220px-Lage_Landen_%28Frankische_Tijd%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Lage_Landen_%28Frankische_Tijd%29.svg/330px-Lage_Landen_%28Frankische_Tijd%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Lage_Landen_%28Frankische_Tijd%29.svg/440px-Lage_Landen_%28Frankische_Tijd%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="812" /></a><figcaption>Southern part of the <a href="/wiki/Low_Countries" title="Low Countries">Low Countries</a> with bishopry towns and abbeys, in about the 7th century</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ID59326-Kortrijk_Begijnhof-PM_36203.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/ID59326-Kortrijk_Begijnhof-PM_36203.jpg/220px-ID59326-Kortrijk_Begijnhof-PM_36203.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/ID59326-Kortrijk_Begijnhof-PM_36203.jpg/330px-ID59326-Kortrijk_Begijnhof-PM_36203.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/ID59326-Kortrijk_Begijnhof-PM_36203.jpg/440px-ID59326-Kortrijk_Begijnhof-PM_36203.jpg 2x" data-file-width="850" data-file-height="567" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Beguinage" title="Beguinage">Beguinage</a> of Kortrijk, where the last one of the <a href="/wiki/Beguines_and_Beghards" title="Beguines and Beghards">Beguines</a>, a medieval Christian lay, semi-monastic order, died in 2013</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="6th–7th_century:_Christianisation"><span id="6th.E2.80.937th_century:_Christianisation"></span>6th–7th century: Christianisation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 6th–7th century: Christianisation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the Roman period, Christianity was brought back to the southern <a href="/wiki/Low_Countries" title="Low Countries">Low Countries</a> by missionary saints like <a href="/wiki/Willibrord" title="Willibrord">Willibrord</a> and <a href="/wiki/Amandus" title="Amandus">Amandus</a>. In the 7th century, <a href="/wiki/Abbey" title="Abbey">abbeys</a> were founded in remote places, and it was mainly from these abbeys that the <a href="/wiki/Christianization" title="Christianization">Christianization</a> process was started. This process was expanded under the auspices of the <a href="/wiki/Merovingian_dynasty" title="Merovingian dynasty">Merovingian dynasty</a>, and later by <a href="/wiki/Charlemagne" title="Charlemagne">Charlemagne</a>, who even waged war to impose the new religion. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="17th–18th_century:_Catholicism_as_the_state_religion"><span id="17th.E2.80.9318th_century:_Catholicism_as_the_state_religion"></span>17th–18th century: Catholicism as the state religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 17th–18th century: Catholicism as the state religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From the Spanish military conquest of 1592 until the re-establishment of religious freedom in 1781 by the <a href="/wiki/Patent_of_Toleration" title="Patent of Toleration">Patent of Toleration</a> under <a href="/wiki/Joseph_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor">Joseph II</a> of Austria, Catholicism was the only religion allowed, on penalty of death, in the territories now forming Belgium. However, a small number of Protestant groups managed to survive at <a href="/wiki/Horebeke" title="Horebeke">Maria-Horebeke</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dour,_Belgium" title="Dour, Belgium">Dour</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tournai" title="Tournai">Tournai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eupen" title="Eupen">Eupen</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Verviers" title="Verviers">Hodimont</a>.<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-heading3"><h3 id="19th–20th_century"><span id="19th.E2.80.9320th_century"></span>19th–20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 19th–20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Religion was one of the differences between the almost solidly Catholic south and the predominantly Protestant north of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="United Kingdom of the Netherlands">United Kingdom of the Netherlands</a>, formed in 1815. The union broke up in 1830 when the south seceded to form the Kingdom of Belgium. In Belgium's first century, Catholicism was such a binding factor socially that it prevailed over the <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Belgium" title="Languages of Belgium">language divide</a> (Dutch versus French). The decline in religion's importance as a <a href="/wiki/Social_marker" title="Social marker">social marker</a> across late-20th-century Western Europe explains to a large extent the current centrifugal forces in Belgium, with language differences (increasingly reinforced by a positive feedback effect in the media) no longer being kept in check by a religious binding factor. If anything, the Catholic Church has acquiesced to these changes by having a Dutch-speaking university (<a href="/wiki/Katholieke_Universiteit_Leuven" class="mw-redirect" title="Katholieke Universiteit Leuven">Katholieke Universiteit Leuven</a>) and a French-speaking university (<a href="/wiki/Universite_Catholique_de_Louvain" class="mw-redirect" title="Universite Catholique de Louvain">Universite Catholique de Louvain</a>). </p><p>Until the late 20th century, Catholicism played an important role in Belgian politics. One significant example was the so-called <a href="/wiki/First_School_War" title="First School War">Schools' Wars</a> (Dutch: <i>schoolstrijd</i>; French: <i>guerres scolaires</i>) between the country's philosophically left-wing parties (<a href="/wiki/Liberalism_in_Belgium" title="Liberalism in Belgium">liberals</a> at first, joined by Socialists later) and the Catholic party (later the <a href="/wiki/Christen-Democratisch_en_Vlaams" class="mw-redirect" title="Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams">Christian Democrats</a>), which took place from 1879 to 1884 and from 1954 to 1958. Another important controversy happened in 1990, when the Catholic monarch, <a href="/wiki/Baudouin_of_Belgium" title="Baudouin of Belgium">King Baudouin I</a>, refused to ratify an abortion bill that had been approved by <a href="/wiki/Belgian_parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Belgian parliament">Parliament</a>. The king asked Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Wilfried_Martens" title="Wilfried Martens">Wilfried Martens</a> and his government to find a solution, which proved novel. The government declared King Baudouin unfit to fulfill his constitutional duties as monarch for one day. Government ministers signed the bill in his place<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then proceeded to reinstate the king after the abortion law had come into effect. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_century">21st century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Belgium&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-One_source plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-one_source" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>relies largely or entirely upon a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources">single source</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Relevant discussion may be found on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Religion_in_Belgium##" title="Talk:Religion in Belgium">talk page</a>. 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The council is now the accepted mouthpiece of Protestantism in all three linguistic communities of Belgium: Dutch, French, and German. </p><p>The 21st century has witnessed significant changes in the religious demography of Belgium, characterized by a decline of Catholicism and the growth of irreligion and other religions, some of them brought by waves of immigration from foreign countries, including <a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostalism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox Christianity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chinese_religions" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese religions">Chinese religions</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. 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