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CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIANITY
Daniel Patte, General Editor
Editorial Board | Preparing Contextual, Conceptual-Theological and Historical, and Methodological Entries | CDC@vanderbilt.edu

NATION: Greece

1.0 STATISTICS (based on World Christian Encyclopedia)

1.1 CHRISTIANS IN OVERALL POPULATION:
1.11 Overall Population
1970: 8,793,000
2000: 10,645,000
1.12 Christians in Overall Population
1970: 8,643,000; 98.3%
2000: 10,082,974; 94.7%

1.2 RELIGIOUS MAKE-UP OF THE REST OF THE POPULATION:

Bahaís: [1970] 200; 0.0%
________  [2000] 611; 0.0%
Buddhists: [1970] %
__________     [2000] %
Confucianists: [1970] %
________________  [2000] %
Ethnoreligionists: [1970] %
__________________      [2000] %
Folk-religionists: [1970] %
__________________    [2000] %
Hindus: [1970] %
_______    [2000] %
Jains: [1970] %
______  [2000] %
Jews: [1970] 3,800; 0.0%
_____   [2000] 4,963; 0.1%
Muslims: [1970] 130,000; 1.5%
________     [2000] 353,517; 3.3%
New-Religionists: [1970] %
____________________   [2000] %
Shintoists: [1970] %
____________  [2000] %
Sikhs: [1970] %
_______ [2000] %
Spiritists: [1970] 0; 0.0%
___________  [2000] 942; 0.0%
Taoists: [1970] %
__________[2000] %
Zoroastrians: [1970] %
_______________  [2000] %

Other Religionists: [1970] 1,000; 0.0%
__________________       [2000] 1,884; 0.0%

Atheists: [1970] 5,000; 0.1%
___________[2000] 19,480; 0.2%
Nonreligious: [1970] 10,000; 0.1%
_________________[2000] 180,373; 1.7%

1.3 SUBDIVISIONS OF CHRISTIANS:

Unaffiliated Christians: [1970] 53,482; 0.6%
___________________________   [2000] 21,954; 0.2%
Affiliated Christians: [1970] 8,589,518; 97.7%
__________________________ [2000] 10,061,020; 94.5%
Anglicans: [1970] 3,000; 0.0%
_____________ [2000] 3,600; 0.0%
Orthodox: [1970] 8,316,519; 94.6%
____________ [2000] 9,900,000; 93.0%
Protestants: [1970] 26,771; 0.3%
______________ [2000] 21,400; 0.2%
Roman Catholics: [1970] 45,723; 0.5%
______________________ [2000] 62,000; 0.6%
Independents: [1970] 207,400; 2.4%
_________________ [2000] 228,000; 2.1%
Marginal Christians: [1970] 50,226; 0.6%
_________________________ [2000] 40,000; 0.4%
Doubly-affiliated: [1970] -60,121; -0.7%
_____________________ [2000] -193,980; -1.8%

TRANS-MEGABLOC GROUPINGS
Evangelicals: [1970] 10,000; 0.1%
________________ [2000] 12,300; 0.1%
Pentecostals / Charismatics: [1970] 7,500; 0.1%
__________________________________ [2000] 122,000; 1.2%
Great Commission Christians: [1970] 351,000; 4.0%
____________________________________ [2000] 262,176; 2.5%

1.31 PERCENT OF MEMBERS REGULARLY ATTENDING WORSHIP
SERVICES
1.32 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF DENOMINATIONS IN THE
NATION

1.33 ETHNIC DISTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANS (% of Christians)
Greek: 88.4%
Pontic: 1.9%
Macedonian: 1.8%
Arvanite (Albanian): 1.5%
Rumelian Turk: 1.4%