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title="Protestant">Protestant</a> (15.3%)</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 (4%)</div> </div> </div></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; border-color:Chartreuse; z-index:-1"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 1589.4544843865px; border-left-color:Blue"></div> <div 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href="/wiki/Religion_in_Benin" title="Religion in Benin">Benin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Botswana" title="Religion in Botswana">Botswana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Burkina_Faso" title="Religion in Burkina Faso">Burkina Faso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Burundi" title="Religion in Burundi">Burundi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Cameroon" title="Religion in Cameroon">Cameroon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Cape_Verde" title="Religion in Cape Verde">Cape Verde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Central_African_Republic" title="Religion in the Central African Republic">Central African Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Chad" title="Religion in Chad">Chad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Comoros" title="Religion in the Comoros">Comoros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Religion in the Republic of the Congo">Republic of the Congo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Djibouti" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion in Djibouti">Djibouti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Egypt" title="Religion in Egypt">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Equatorial_Guinea" title="Religion in Equatorial Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Eritrea" title="Religion in Eritrea">Eritrea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Eswatini" title="Religion in Eswatini">Eswatini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Ethiopia" title="Religion in Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Gabon" title="Religion in Gabon">Gabon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Gambia" title="Religion in the Gambia">Gambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Ghana" title="Religion in Ghana">Ghana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Guinea" title="Religion in Guinea">Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Guinea-Bissau" title="Religion in Guinea-Bissau">Guinea-Bissau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Ivory_Coast" title="Religion in Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Kenya" title="Religion in Kenya">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Lesotho" title="Religion in Lesotho">Lesotho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Liberia" title="Religion in Liberia">Liberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Libya" title="Religion in Libya">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Madagascar" title="Religion in Madagascar">Madagascar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Malawi" title="Religion in Malawi">Malawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mali" title="Religion in Mali">Mali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mauritania" title="Religion in Mauritania">Mauritania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mauritius" title="Religion in Mauritius">Mauritius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Morocco" title="Religion in Morocco">Morocco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mozambique" title="Religion in Mozambique">Mozambique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Namibia" title="Religion in Namibia">Namibia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Niger" title="Religion in Niger">Niger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Nigeria" title="Religion in Nigeria">Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Rwanda" title="Religion in Rwanda">Rwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe" title="Religion in São Tomé and Príncipe">São Tomé and Príncipe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Senegal" title="Religion in Senegal">Senegal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Seychelles" title="Religion in Seychelles">Seychelles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Sierra_Leone" title="Religion in Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Somalia" title="Religion in Somalia">Somalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_South_Africa" title="Religion in South Africa">South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_South_Sudan" title="Religion in South Sudan">South Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Sudan" title="Religion in Sudan">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Tanzania" title="Religion in Tanzania">Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Togo" title="Religion in Togo">Togo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Tunisia" title="Religion in Tunisia">Tunisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Uganda" title="Religion in Uganda">Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Zambia" title="Religion in Zambia">Zambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Zimbabwe" title="Religion in Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Asia" title="Religion in Asia">Asia</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Afghanistan" title="Religion in Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Armenia" title="Religion in Armenia">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Azerbaijan" title="Religion in Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Bahrain" title="Religion in Bahrain">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Bangladesh" title="Religion in Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Bhutan" title="Religion in Bhutan">Bhutan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Brunei" title="Religion in Brunei">Brunei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Cambodia" title="Religion in Cambodia">Cambodia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_China" title="Religion in China">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Cyprus" title="Religion in 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href="/wiki/Religion_in_Korea" title="Religion in Korea">Korea</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_North_Korea" title="Religion in North Korea">North Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_South_Korea" title="Religion in South Korea">South Korea</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Kuwait" title="Religion in Kuwait">Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Kyrgyzstan" title="Religion in Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Laos" title="Religion in Laos">Laos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Lebanon" title="Religion in Lebanon">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Macau" title="Religion in Macau">Macau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Malaysia" title="Religion in Malaysia">Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Maldives" title="Religion in the Maldives">Maldives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mongolia" title="Religion in Mongolia">Mongolia</a></li> <li><a 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This historical background is very much due to the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish influence</a> brought about through the newly conquered territories. However, affiliation with <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> churches is increasing and immigration throughout the 20th century has brought other religions from various regions to Argentina.<sup id="cite_ref-Conicet_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Conicet-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Secular" class="mw-redirect" title="Secular">secular</a> nation and its constitution guarantees freedom of religion.<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> <a href="/wiki/Good_Friday" title="Good Friday">Good Friday</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> are recognised as national holidays.<sup id="cite_ref-creencias_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-creencias-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> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <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_Argentina&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roman_Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Argentina&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Roman Catholicism"><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 article: <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_Argentina" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism in Argentina">Roman Catholicism in Argentina</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Facade_BA_Metropolitan_Church.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Facade_BA_Metropolitan_Church.jpg/220px-Facade_BA_Metropolitan_Church.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Facade_BA_Metropolitan_Church.jpg/330px-Facade_BA_Metropolitan_Church.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Facade_BA_Metropolitan_Church.jpg/440px-Facade_BA_Metropolitan_Church.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Metropolitan_Cathedral" title="Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral">Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 2020, estimates for the number of Roman Catholics vary from as low as 62.9% of the population,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to as much as 92.12%.<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> The CIA Factbook lists 92% of the country as Catholic, but adds that less than 20% practice their faith regularly.<sup id="cite_ref-cia.gov_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cia.gov-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Argentina's society, culture, and politics are deeply imbued with Roman Catholicism. The Church's place in Argentine national identity, which spans across the ideological spectrum, stems from the perpetual ability of Argentines on different sides of political and social divides to find some level of support in the Church.<sup id="cite_ref-georgetown1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-georgetown1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Church solidified its hold on the territory of modern-day Argentina during the period of Spanish colonial rule from the 16th to early 19th centuries. Church leaders variously supported and opposed the policies of <a href="/wiki/Juan_Per%C3%B3n" title="Juan Perón">Juan Perón</a> and the violent tactics of the <a href="/wiki/Dirty_War" title="Dirty War">Dirty War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-georgetown1_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-georgetown1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Roman Catholicism is not the official religion of the state, and freedom of religion is guaranteed by the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Argentina" title="Constitution of Argentina">Constitution</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-CSJN_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSJN-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Catholic representatives take part in many state functions. Today, areas of <a href="/wiki/Church-state_relations_in_Argentina" class="mw-redirect" title="Church-state relations in Argentina">Church-State contention</a> include <a href="/wiki/Contraception" class="mw-redirect" title="Contraception">contraception</a>, economic policies, and the disputed <a href="/wiki/Dirty_War#Participation_of_Catholic_Church_members" title="Dirty War">involvement of the Church in the Dirty War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-georgetown1_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-georgetown1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Catholic practices in Argentina (especially in <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_in_Argentina" title="Indigenous peoples in Argentina">indigenous</a> areas) might be seen as incorporating a great deal of <a href="/wiki/Syncretism" title="Syncretism">syncretism</a>; for example, religious festivals in the north-western provinces feature Catholic icons in (or along with) ancient <a href="/wiki/Andean" class="mw-redirect" title="Andean">Andean</a> indigenous ceremonies. The <a href="/wiki/Pachamama" title="Pachamama">Pachamama</a> worship is still widespread throughout Salta and Jujuy along with Catholic beliefs, without opposition from the Catholic bishops. </p><p>The church in Argentina is divided into <a href="/wiki/Diocese" title="Diocese">dioceses</a> and <a href="/wiki/Archdiocese" class="mw-redirect" title="Archdiocese">archdioceses</a>. Buenos Aires, for example, is an archdiocese owing to is size and historical significance as the nation's capital. <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Metropolitan_Cathedral" title="Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral">Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral</a>, the seat of the archbishop, houses the remains of General <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn" title="José de San Martín">José de San Martín</a> in a mausoleum. </p><p>There are nine Catholic universities in Argentina: the <a href="/wiki/Pontifical_Catholic_University_of_Argentina" title="Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina">Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina</a> (Buenos Aires), the <a href="/wiki/Universidad_del_Salvador" title="Universidad del Salvador">Universidad del Salvador</a> (Buenos Aires), the <a href="/wiki/Universidad_Cat%C3%B3lica_de_C%C3%B3rdoba" class="mw-redirect" title="Universidad Católica de Córdoba">Universidad Católica de Córdoba</a>, the Universidad de La Plata, the Universidad de Salta, the Universidad de Santa Fe, the Universidad de Cuyo, and the Universidad de Santiago del Estero. <a href="/wiki/Religious_orders" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious orders">Religious orders</a> run and sponsor hundreds of primary and secondary schools throughout the country, with and without government funding. </p><p>Cardinal <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Buenos_Aires" class="mw-redirect" title="Archbishop of Buenos Aires">Archbishop of Buenos Aires</a> Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected to the papacy, as <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a>, on 13 March 2013.<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> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_Christian_denominations">Other Christian denominations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Argentina&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Other Christian denominations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> churches have been gaining ground since the 1980s. In Latin America, most Protestants are called <i>Evangélicos</i> (<a href="/wiki/Evangelicals" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelicals">Evangelicals</a>). One survey in 2008 found approximately 9% of the total population were Protestant; most of whom, 7.9% of the total population were <a href="/wiki/Pentecostal" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentecostal">Pentecostal</a>. While Pentecostal churches originally attracted mostly the lower class, they show an increasing appeal to the urban middle class.<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> Middle class congregations develop a distinctive style of Pentecostalism, more adapted to society.<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><p>In addition 1.2% of the population were Jehovah's Witnesses and 0.9% <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_in_Argentina" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Argentina">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>. This study also found that Protestants were the only group in which a majority regularly attended services.<sup id="cite_ref-creencias_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-creencias-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 2013 survey found 15% Protestant (9% Pentecostal,4% refusing to say which Protestant denomination and 2% mainline ).<sup id="cite_ref-pewreport2014_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pewreport2014-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_in_Argentina" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Argentina">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> claims over 474,000 members with two temples and 726 congregations.<sup id="cite_ref-lds-stats_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lds-stats-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The very first <a href="/wiki/Waldensian" class="mw-redirect" title="Waldensian">Waldensian</a> settlers from Italy arrived in South America in 1856 and today the Waldensian Church of the <a href="/wiki/R%C3%ADo_de_La_Plata" class="mw-redirect" title="Río de La Plata">Río de La Plata</a> (which forms a united church with the Waldensian Evangelical Church) has approximately 40 congregations and 15,000 members shared between <a href="/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay">Uruguay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Argentine_Catholic_Apostolic_Church" title="Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church">Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church</a> is a derivative movement of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (<a href="/wiki/Igreja_Cat%C3%B3lica_Apost%C3%B3lica_Brasileira" class="mw-redirect" title="Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira">Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira</a>) founded by the excommunicated Roman Catholic Bishop <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Duarte_Costa" title="Carlos Duarte Costa">Carlos Duarte Costa</a> of Brazil in 1945. The Argentine Catholic Apostolic Church was founded, according to varying sources, in 1970 or 1971, in Buenos Aires by its first Archbishop–Primate <a href="/wiki/Leonardo_Morizio_Dominguez" class="mw-redirect" title="Leonardo Morizio Dominguez">Leonardo Morizio Dominguez</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Church_of_the_Southern_Cone_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America">Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America</a> represents the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a> in Argentina. </p><p>A 2015 study estimates some 2,200 Christian believers from a Muslim background in the country, most of them belonging to some form of Protestantism.<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> </p><p>Orthodox Christianity is represented by <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Antioch" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch">Antiochian</a>, Constantinople, Russian, Serbian, Romanian and Greek Orthodox Churches.<sup id="cite_ref-orthodox_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-orthodox-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Islam">Islam</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Argentina&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Islam"><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:Centro_Cultural_Isl%C3%A1mico_Rey_Fahd,_Buenos_Aires.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Centro_Cultural_Isl%C3%A1mico_Rey_Fahd%2C_Buenos_Aires.jpg/220px-Centro_Cultural_Isl%C3%A1mico_Rey_Fahd%2C_Buenos_Aires.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Centro_Cultural_Isl%C3%A1mico_Rey_Fahd%2C_Buenos_Aires.jpg/330px-Centro_Cultural_Isl%C3%A1mico_Rey_Fahd%2C_Buenos_Aires.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Centro_Cultural_Isl%C3%A1mico_Rey_Fahd%2C_Buenos_Aires.jpg/440px-Centro_Cultural_Isl%C3%A1mico_Rey_Fahd%2C_Buenos_Aires.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2848" data-file-height="2134" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/King_Fahd_Islamic_Cultural_Center" title="King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center">King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center</a></figcaption></figure> <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_Argentina" title="Islam in Argentina">Islam in Argentina</a></div> <p>Argentina has the largest <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> minority in Latin America. Although the national census does not ask about religious affiliation, precluding accurate statistics, <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>'s Muslim community is estimated to number around 1% of the total population. Estimates in 2000 ranged around 400,000.<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> </p><p>The 20th century saw an influx of immigrants from the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>, mostly <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a> from <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>. They are generically called 'Turcos' (Turks) in Argentina, because when most arrived, Lebanon and Syria were territories of the Turkish <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>.<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> It is estimated that today there are about 3.5 million Argentines of Arab descent.<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 majority of these Arab immigrants were Arab Christians and some were <a href="/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews" title="Mizrahi Jews">Mizrahi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sephardic_Jews" title="Sephardic Jews">Sephardic Jews</a>. Though accurate information is unavailable, it is likely that less than a quarter of Arab migrants were Muslim Arabs. The descendants of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews are more likely to identify themselves as just <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a> rather than <a href="/wiki/Arab_Jews" title="Arab Jews">Arab Jews</a> today. </p><p>The King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center, the largest mosque in South America, was completed in 1996 with the help of the <a href="/wiki/Custodian_of_the_Two_Holy_Mosques" title="Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques">Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques</a>, on a piece of land measuring 20,000 m<sup>2</sup>. The total land area granted by the Argentine government measures 34,000 m<sup>2</sup>, and was offered by President <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Menem" title="Carlos Menem">Carlos Menem</a> following his visit to <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> in 1992. The project cost around US$30 million, includes a mosque, library, two schools, and a park, and is located in the middle-class district of <a href="/wiki/Palermo,_Buenos_Aires" title="Palermo, Buenos Aires">Palermo, Buenos Aires</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Organization_of_Latin_America" title="Islamic Organization of Latin America">Islamic Organization of Latin America</a> (IOLA), headquartered in Argentina, is considered the most active organization in Latin America in promoting Islamic-affiliated endeavors. The IOLA holds events to promote the unification of Muslims living in Latin America, as well as the propagation of Islam.<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. (November 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Judaism">Judaism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Argentina&action=edit&section=5" 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/Judaism_in_Argentina" class="mw-redirect" title="Judaism in Argentina">Judaism in Argentina</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Buenos_Aires_-_Barracas_-_Sociedad_Uni%C3%B3n_Israelita_Sefarad%C3%AD_Or_Torah.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Buenos_Aires_-_Barracas_-_Sociedad_Uni%C3%B3n_Israelita_Sefarad%C3%AD_Or_Torah.jpg/220px-Buenos_Aires_-_Barracas_-_Sociedad_Uni%C3%B3n_Israelita_Sefarad%C3%AD_Or_Torah.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Buenos_Aires_-_Barracas_-_Sociedad_Uni%C3%B3n_Israelita_Sefarad%C3%AD_Or_Torah.jpg/330px-Buenos_Aires_-_Barracas_-_Sociedad_Uni%C3%B3n_Israelita_Sefarad%C3%AD_Or_Torah.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Buenos_Aires_-_Barracas_-_Sociedad_Uni%C3%B3n_Israelita_Sefarad%C3%AD_Or_Torah.jpg/440px-Buenos_Aires_-_Barracas_-_Sociedad_Uni%C3%B3n_Israelita_Sefarad%C3%AD_Or_Torah.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2220" data-file-height="3336" /></a><figcaption>Synagogue Or Torah in Buenos Aires.</figcaption></figure> <p>Argentina has the largest <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jewish</a> population in Latin America and south of the <a href="/wiki/Tropic_of_Cancer" title="Tropic of Cancer">Tropic of Cancer</a>,<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> with about 300,000 people. The community numbered about 400,000 after World War II, but the appeal of <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, and economic and cultural pressures at home led many to leave for Israel, Europe or the United States; recent instability in Israel has resulted in a modest reversal of the trend since 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-stateirf_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stateirf-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><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> </p><p>One of the Jewish groups in Argentina includes the <a href="/wiki/Sephardi_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Sephardi Jews">Sephardi Jews</a>, composed of Spanish and Portuguese migrants to Argentina. Migration began in the 18th century and continued until a few years following the birth of Israel. A majority of Sephardi Jews migrated to Argentina because of both groups speaking the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish language</a>. However, after the creation of Israel, Sephardi tensions amongst Muslims in Latin American countries began to rise resulting in the remaining Sephardi populations, found mainly in Morocco, migrating to Argentina. <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires" title="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a> holds almost the entire Sephardic Jewish population in Argentina, home to roughly 50,000. In Argentina, Sephardi Jews remained separate of <a href="/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews" title="Ashkenazi Jews">Ashkenazi Jews</a>, who in the later half of the 20th century, made up most of the Jewish population in Latin America. However, as an overwhelming amount of the Argentinian population became Ashkenazic, the Sephardic Jews began marrying outside of the Sephardi Jewish community.<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> </p><p>Although Jews account for less than 1% of Argentina's population, <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires" title="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a> has the <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_of_Argentina" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Jews of Argentina">largest population of Jews</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Americas" title="Americas">Americas</a>, outside of the United States. It is the seventh largest Jewish community in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-DashefskySheskin2013_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DashefskySheskin2013-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Buddhism">Buddhism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Argentina&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Buddhism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Argentina" title="Buddhism in Argentina">Buddhism in Argentina</a> has been practiced since the early 1980s. </p><p>Although Argentina is largely <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Argentina" title="Catholic Church in Argentina">Catholic Christianity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chinese_people" title="Chinese people">Chinese</a> immigrants established the first Chinese Buddhist temple in 1986, and <a href="/wiki/Korean_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Korean people">Korean</a> immigrants founded their own temple. Since then many groups have been giving teachings, some of them rooted in the best known <a href="/wiki/S%C5%8Dt%C5%8D" title="Sōtō">Sōtō</a> tradition from <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, but also in many <a href="/wiki/Tibet" title="Tibet">Tibetan</a> institutes for the practice of <a href="/wiki/Meditation" title="Meditation">meditation</a>(<a href="/wiki/Mahamudra" title="Mahamudra">Mahamudra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dzog_Chen" class="mw-redirect" title="Dzog Chen">Dzog Chen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lam_Rim" class="mw-redirect" title="Lam Rim">Lam Rim</a>). </p><p><a href="/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso" class="mw-redirect" title="Tenzin Gyatso">The XIV</a> <a href="/wiki/Dalai_Lama" title="Dalai Lama">Dalai Lama</a> visited <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires" title="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a> twice. The first time was in 2006,<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> the second in 2011.<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> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hinduism">Hinduism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Argentina&action=edit&section=7" 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_South_America" title="Hinduism in South America">Hinduism in South America</a></div> <p>Argentina has 2,030 <a href="/wiki/Non-resident_Indian_and_person_of_Indian_origin" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin">persons of Indian origin</a> (PIOs) and 1,300 non-resident Indians (NRIs). Some of them still refer to <a href="/wiki/Ayurveda" title="Ayurveda">ayurveda</a>, practice yoga, enjoy Indian classical music and speak Hindustani dialects and languages. They have established an Indian Association in the northern <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Argentina" title="Provinces of Argentina">provinces</a> and organize social and cultural events to celebrate Indian festivals. Unfortunately, there is little interaction between them and those who have settled down in other parts of the extensive country. A large number of the Indian diaspora living in <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires" title="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a> are businessmen, doctors, financial or business executives, and employees of multinational corporations. Most of them have retained their Indian citizenship. Many <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindus</a> are <a href="/wiki/Indo-Caribbean" class="mw-redirect" title="Indo-Caribbean">Indo-Caribbeans</a> from <a href="/wiki/Guyana" title="Guyana">Guyana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Suriname" title="Suriname">Suriname</a>.<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> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Paganism">Paganism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Argentina&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Paganism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to a New York Times article there is a witch’s group with over 25,000 followers and possibly millions of practitioners of Argentine cábala (not to be confused with Kabballah from which one the term descends), a practice blending astrology, superstition, soccer, and paraphernalia associated with neopaganism.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/world/americas/argentina-world-cup-witches.html">[1]</a>. There is also at least one organization active that insists Wicca is not a “secta” Spanish for cult since it is performed in solitary in its individual form.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.wicca-argentina.com.ar/queeswicca.htm">[2]</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_status">Legal status</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Argentina&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Legal status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Constitution states that the federal government sustains the Apostolic Roman Catholic religion,<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> but guarantees freedom of religion.<sup id="cite_ref-constitution_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-constitution-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2023 study assessing nations' levels of religious regulation and persecution with scores ranging from 0-10 where 0 represented low levels of regulation or persecution, Argentina received a score of 1.5 on Government Regulation of Religion, 4.7 on Social Regulation of Religion and 8.1 on Government Favoritism of Religion.<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> In the same year, the country was scored 4 out of 4 for religious freedom by Freedom House, a US government funded think tank.<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><p>The law that regulates the acknowledgement of religions by the state dates from 1978, and makes it prohibitively bureaucratic for minority cults to attain official recognition, since it was passed by the dictatorial government of the time basically to search those cults for politically subversive elements. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State-Catholic_church_relations">State-Catholic church relations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Argentina&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: State-Catholic church relations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cristina_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Kirchner_recibe_al_arzobispo_Jorge_Bergoglio_2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Cristina_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Kirchner_recibe_al_arzobispo_Jorge_Bergoglio_2007.jpg/200px-Cristina_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Kirchner_recibe_al_arzobispo_Jorge_Bergoglio_2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Cristina_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Kirchner_recibe_al_arzobispo_Jorge_Bergoglio_2007.jpg/300px-Cristina_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Kirchner_recibe_al_arzobispo_Jorge_Bergoglio_2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Cristina_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Kirchner_recibe_al_arzobispo_Jorge_Bergoglio_2007.jpg/400px-Cristina_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Kirchner_recibe_al_arzobispo_Jorge_Bergoglio_2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1329" /></a><figcaption>President <a href="/wiki/Cristina_Kirchner" class="mw-redirect" title="Cristina Kirchner">Cristina Kirchner</a> receives Archbishop <a href="/wiki/Jorge_Bergoglio" class="mw-redirect" title="Jorge Bergoglio">Jorge Bergoglio</a> (2007)</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/State-Church_relations_in_Argentina" class="mw-redirect" title="State-Church relations in Argentina">State-Church relations in Argentina</a></div> <p>The Constitution requires the government to support <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholicism</a> economically.<sup id="cite_ref-constitution_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-constitution-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite this, the <a href="/wiki/Argentine_Supreme_Court_of_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="Argentine Supreme Court of Justice">Supreme Court</a> ruled that the Roman Catholic Church was not granted the status of official religion by the constitution or any federal legislation.<sup id="cite_ref-CSJN_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSJN-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Constitution once stated that the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Argentina" title="President of Argentina">president</a> must be a Roman Catholic. This requirement was removed from the text in the <a href="/wiki/1994_reform_of_the_Argentine_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="1994 reform of the Argentine Constitution">1994 constitutional reform</a>, since the president no longer designates Argentine bishops. The old 1853 text also included a goal "to keep a pacific relationship with the Indians and promote their conversion to Catholicism", which was deleted in the reform. </p><p>Each <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Bishop" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Bishop">bishops</a> receives a monthly salary from the state.<sup id="cite_ref-constitution_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-constitution-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Older seminarians and retired priests receive state pensions, and parishes in convective or near the border are <a href="/wiki/Subsidy" title="Subsidy">subsidised</a>. The state also subsidises <a href="/wiki/Catholic_school" title="Catholic school">catholic schools</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popular_cults_and_other_smaller_religions_in_Argentina">Popular cults and other smaller religions in Argentina</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Argentina&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Popular cults and other smaller religions in Argentina"><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:Difunta_Correa_santuario.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Difunta_Correa_santuario.JPG/220px-Difunta_Correa_santuario.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Difunta_Correa_santuario.JPG/330px-Difunta_Correa_santuario.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Difunta_Correa_santuario.JPG/440px-Difunta_Correa_santuario.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1201" data-file-height="1683" /></a><figcaption>Sanctuary dedicated to the <i>Difunta Correa</i>, located near <a href="/wiki/Tacuaremb%C3%B3" title="Tacuarembó">Tacuarembó</a> (<a href="/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay">Uruguay</a>).</figcaption></figure> <p>Besides mainstream religious practices, there are also a number of unconventional practices, usually part of local folklore. One of the most famous is the veneration of <i>La <a href="/wiki/Difunta_Correa" title="Difunta Correa">Difunta Correa</a></i> ("The Deceased Correa"). Many other beliefs in advocations of the Virgin, saints and other religious characters exist throughout the country, which are locally or regionally popular and church-endorsed. </p><p>Another popular cult is that of the <a href="/wiki/Gauchito_Gil" title="Gauchito Gil">Gauchito Gil</a> ("the little <a href="/wiki/Gaucho" title="Gaucho">gaucho</a> Gil", Antonio Mamerto Gil Núñez), born in the province of <a href="/wiki/Corrientes_Province" title="Corrientes Province">Corrientes</a> (allegedly in 1847). Gil was forced to enlist to fight in the civil war, but he deserted and became an outlaw <i>à la</i> <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a>. </p><p>From <a href="/wiki/R%C3%ADo_Negro_Province" title="Río Negro Province">Río Negro Province</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ceferino_Namuncur%C3%A1" title="Ceferino Namuncurá">Ceferino Namuncurá</a>, son of the <a href="/wiki/Mapuche" title="Mapuche">Mapuche</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Cacique" title="Cacique">cacique</a></i> Manuel Namuncurá, is also a source of veneration all over <a href="/wiki/Patagonia" title="Patagonia">Patagonia</a>. He died of <a href="/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a> with only 18 years of age, while in Italy during his catholic education, and was later named <a href="/wiki/Venerable" class="mw-redirect" title="Venerable">venerable</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Vatican_City" title="Vatican City">Vatican</a>. </p><p>There is also the popular cult of <a href="/wiki/Miguel_%C3%81ngel_Gait%C3%A1n" title="Miguel Ángel Gaitán">Miguel Ángel Gaitán</a>, from Villa Unión, in <a href="/wiki/La_Rioja_Province,_Argentina" title="La Rioja Province, Argentina">La Rioja</a>, known as <i>El Angelito Milagroso</i> ("The Miraculous Little Angel"), an infant who died of meningitis just short of his first birthday, who people recur to for requests and miracles. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Iglesia_Maradoniana" title="Iglesia Maradoniana">Iglesia Maradoniana</a> is sport themed self-subscribed <a href="/wiki/Parody_religion" title="Parody religion">Parody religion</a> founded by three fans at Christmas party for creating a new religion based around their favorite football player <a href="/wiki/Diego_Maradona" title="Diego Maradona">Diego Maradona</a>.<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> Since then it has gained between 120,000 and 200,000 followers since the 'religion' was founded.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Affiliation_estimates">Affiliation estimates</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Argentina&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Affiliation estimates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Evangelical_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical church">Evangelical churches</a> have been gaining a foothold since the 1980s with approximately 9% of the total population,<sup id="cite_ref-creencias_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-creencias-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Pentecostal" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentecostal">Pentecostal</a> churches and traditional Protestant denominations are present in most communities. </p><p>In 2023, <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_in_Argentina" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Argentina">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> claims 474,985 followers in Argentina (their seventh-largest congregation in the world).<sup id="cite_ref-stats_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stats-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the World Christian Database in 2022, Argentines are 88.77% Christian, 6.9% agnostic, 2% Muslim, 0.4% Jewish, and 0.9% atheist, with no other category exceeding 0.3%.<sup id="cite_ref-World_Christian_Database_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World_Christian_Database-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to a 2008 CONICET survey on creeds, about 76.5% of Argentines are <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Roman Catholic</a>, 11.3% religiously indifferent, 9% <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> (with 7.9% in <a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostal</a> denominations), 1.2% <a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a>, and 0.9% <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_in_Argentina" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Argentina">Mormons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-creencias_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-creencias-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2008 survey called America's Barometer by the <a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_University" title="Vanderbilt University">Vanderbilt University</a> reported for Argentina, Catholic 77.1%, No religion 15.9%, Protestant, Evangelical and other Christian 4.8% (with Pentecostal 3.3%), Other 2.1%.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2019 survey made online by the Universidad de San Andrés showed that 59% of Argentines identify themselves as Catholics, 8% as Protestant, 9% follow other religions, 15% consider themselves not religious, 1% identified themselves as either Jewish or Muslim and a further 7% refused to answer. The same survey revealed that 76% of Argentines believe in God (a decrease from 91% in 2008), 44% believe in heaven, 32% believe in hell, around 29% pray daily, only 13% attend religious services weekly and about 24% consider religion to be very important in their lives.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto; font-size:80%;"> <caption style="font-size:100%"> Religion in Argentina (2019)<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Affiliation </th> <th colspan="2">% of Population </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian">Christian</a> </td> <td align="right">79.6 </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">79.6</span><div style="width:159.2px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:darkblue"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left; text-indent:15px;"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> </td> <td align="right">62.9 </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">62.9</span><div style="width:125.8px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:Violet"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left; text-indent:15px;"><a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> </td> <td align="right">13.0 </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">13</span><div style="width:26px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:Purple"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left; text-indent:15px;"><a href="/wiki/Evangelical" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical">Evangelical</a> </td> <td align="right">2.3 </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">2.3</span><div style="width:4.6px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:mediumblue"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left; text-indent:15px;"><a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witness" class="mw-redirect" title="Jehovah's Witness">Jehovah's Witness</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_in_Argentina" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Argentina">Mormon</a> </td> <td align="right">1.4 </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">1.4</span><div style="width:2.8px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:lightblue"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>No religion </td> <td align="right">18.9 </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">18.9</span><div style="width:37.8px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:Grey"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left; text-indent:15px;"><a href="/wiki/Irreligion" title="Irreligion">Irreligion</a> </td> <td align="right">9.7 </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">9.7</span><div style="width:19.4px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:lightgreen"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left; text-indent:15px;"><a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">Atheist</a> </td> <td align="right">6.0 </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">6</span><div style="width:12px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:Red"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left; text-indent:15px;"><a href="/wiki/Agnostic" class="mw-redirect" title="Agnostic">Agnostic</a> </td> <td align="right">3.2 </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">3.2</span><div style="width:6.4px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:Orange"> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Other religions </td> <td align="right">1.2 </td> <td align="left"><span style="display:none;">1.2</span><div style="width:2.4px;height:2ex;background:#aaa;color:inherit;background:darkgreen"> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <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_Argentina&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_Argentina" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism in Argentina">Roman Catholicism in Argentina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Argentina" title="Islam in Argentina">Islam in Argentina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judaism_in_Argentina" class="mw-redirect" title="Judaism in Argentina">Judaism in Argentina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Argentina" title="Buddhism in Argentina">Buddhism in Argentina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinduism_in_Argentina" class="mw-redirect" title="Hinduism in Argentina">Hinduism in Argentina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Argentina" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedom of religion in Argentina">Freedom of religion in Argentina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_Provinces_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata" title="Religion in the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata">Religion in the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_Argentina&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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