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Religious landscape

Registered religious organizations in Lithuania

Registered religious organizations - units* 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Roman Catholics 880 881 889 895 898 Old Believers 63 63 63 63 64 Evangelical Lutherans 56 56 56 56 56 Orthodox 56 57 57 (...)

Registered religious organizations - units*
	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Roman Catholics	880	881	889	895	898
Old Believers	63	63	63	63	64
Evangelical Lutherans	56	56	56	56	56
Orthodox	56	57	57	57	57
Charismatic Evangelical Christian communities	47	48	48	50	51
Pentecostal	31	31	32	32	34
Baptists and Free Churches	31	31	31	31	31
Seventh-Day Adventists	20	20	20	18	15
Evangelical Reformed Believers	17	17	17	18	18
Methodists	9	9	9	9	9
Jehovah’s Witnesses	3	3	3	3	3
Churches of Christ	3	3	3	3	3
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)	3	3	3	3	3
Armenian Apostolic Church	2	2	2	2	2
Greek rite Catholics	2	2	2	2	2
Christian Community	1	1	1	1	1
The Salvation Army	1	1	1	1	1
New Apostolic Church	1	1	1	1	1
Lay Home Missionary Movement	1	1	1	1	1
Romanian Orthodox	1	1	1	1	1
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church	1	1	1	1	1
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate	NAP**	NAP	NAP	NAP	1
Unification Church (Moonies)	1	1	1	1	1
Inter-confessional communities	1	1	1	1	1
Mitnagdim Jews	7	7	8	8	8
Chassidic Jews	2	2	2	2	2
Sunni Muslims	10	10	10	10	10
Non-Islamic Sufism Communities	1	1	1	1	1
Society for Krishna Consciousness	4	4	4	4	4
Tibet Buddhist Communities	6	6	6	6	6
Communities confessing the teaching of Buddha	3	3	3	3	3
Zen Buddhist Communities	2	2	2	2	2
Japanese Buddhist Communities	1	1	1	1	1
Osho Meditation Groups	1	1	1	1	1
Pagans	8	8	8	8	8
Karaites	1	1	1	1	1
Baha’is	2	2	2	2	2

* Data from the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice.
** NAP - such a phenomenon (indicator) did not exist during a particular time period.

Information about updates: Religious organization (2000 - 2017) (Was renewed: 2018-11-16)

D 13 July 2021 ARasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson

Religious affiliation in 2021

"According to the 2021 Census data, the religious diversity of the population is increasing. However, in terms of the distribution by attribution to a religious community, no substantial changes were recorded. 74 percent of the population identifies with the Roman Catholic community. Over a decade, the change has not been substantial. In 2011, 77 percent of the population identified with the Roman Catholic community. 4 percent of the population claim to belong to the Orthodox community, while the other religious communities do not exceed 1 percent. 6 percent of the population do not identify themselves with any religion, 14 percent did not indicate their religion. New religious communities were recorded: Deists, Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Witches, Rastafarians, Theosophists" (Statistics Lithuania).

Statistical survey on ethnicity, mother tongue and religion data - 2021

Total	2,810,761
Roman Catholics	2,085,340
Orthodox	105,326
Old Believers	18,196
Evangelical Lutherans	15,741
Evangelical Reformed Believers	5,540
Balts’ Belief	3,917
Pentecostalists	3,032
Sunni Muslims	2,165
Jehovah’s Witnesses	2,118
Church of Christ	1,700
Baptists and Free Churches	1,092
Jews	899
Greek Catholics (Uniats)	785
Seventh-Day Adventist Church	721
Charismatic Evangelical Christians communities	638
New Apostolic Church	412
Buddhists	371
Karaites	255
Society for Krishna Consciousness	248
Methodists	239
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	105
Other	6017
None	171,810
Not indicated	384,094

Lithuanian Department of Statistics (Statistics Lithuania), 2021 Lithuanian Census about the population by religious community.

D 28 April 2022 ARasa Pranskevičiūtė-Amoson