Religion in Catalonia

Religion in Catalonia (2016)[1]

  Roman Catholicism (58.0%)
  Protestantism (3.0%)
  Eastern Orthodoxy (0.9%)
  Jehovah's Witnesses (0.6%)
  Atheism (16%)
  Agnosticism (11.9%)
  Islam (4.8%)
  Buddhism (1.3%)
  Other Religions (2.4%)
  No answer/do not know (1.1%)
The Cathedral of Barcelona is a fine specimen of Gothic architecture.

Religion in Catalonia is diversified. Since the Expulsion of the Jews and the Moriscos in the late 15th and early 17th centuries respectively, virtually all the population was Christian, specifically Catholic, but since the 1980s there has been a trend of rapid decline of Christianity, also driven since the 1980s by the religious authorities' association with Francoist Spain.[2] Nevertheless, according to the most recent study sponsored by the government of Catalonia, as of 2016, 61.9% of the Catalans identify as Christians, up from 56.5% in 2014,[3] of whom 58.0% Catholics, 3.0% Protestants and Evangelicals, 0.9% Orthodox Christians and 0.6% Jehovah's Witnesses. At the same time, 16.0% of the population identify as atheists, 11.9% as agnostics, 4.8% as Muslims, 1.3% as Buddhists, and a further 2.4% as being of other religions.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Baròmetre sobre la religiositat i sobre la gestió de la seva diversitat 2016" (PDF). Institut Opiniòmetre, Generalitat de Catalunya. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2018. p. 30. Quick data from the 2016 barometer of Catalonia.
  2. ^ Capdevila 2013, pp. 9–10.
  3. ^ "Baròmetre sobre la religiositat i sobre la gestió de la seva diversitat" (PDF). Institut Opiniòmetre, Generalitat de Catalunya. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2017. p. 30. Quick data from the 2014 barometer of Catalonia.