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The following is a partial list of Christian denominations in the Philippines. Christianity is the country's dominant religion , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] followed by about 89 percent of the population. [ 3 ]
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [ 10] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
Christianity portal. v. t. e. The Philippines is ranked as the 5th largest Christian -majority country on Earth in 2010, [ note 1] with about 93% of the population being adherents. [ 1] As of 2019, it was the third largest Catholic country in the world and was one of two predominantly Catholic nations in Asia. [ 2]
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
About 48.6% to 50.1% of all Christians are Catholics. [1] [2] According to the annual directory of the Catholic Church or Annuario Pontificio of 2024, there were 1.390 billion baptized Catholics in 2022. [7] [8] In 2024, the World Christian Database reported 1.278 billion Catholics. [1]
The Baháʼí Faith in the Philippines started in 1921 with the first Baháʼí first visiting the Philippines that year, [64] and by 1944 a Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly was established. [65] In the early 1960s, during a period of accelerated growth, the community grew from 200 in 1960 to 1000 by 1962 and 2000 by 1963.
Protestants account for nearly forty percent of Christians worldwide and more than one tenth of the total human population. [2] Various estimates put the percentage of Protestants in relation to the total number of the world's Christians at 33%, [5] 36%, [13] 36.7%, [2] and 40%, [3] while in relation to the world's population at 11.6% [2] and ...
The 2015 Philippine census by the Philippine Statistics Authority found that 2.4 percent of the population of 101 million were members of PCEC churches, making it the third largest faith group in the Philippines after the Catholic Church (79.5%) and Islam (6.0%), and down from 2.7% in 2010.