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Do not fill this in! === Religion === {{Main|Religion in the Czech Republic|Religion in the European Union}} {{bar box |title=Religion in the Czech Republic (2011)<ref name="Czech Statistical Office">{{cite web|url=http://www.czso.cz/sldb2011/eng/redakce.nsf/i/tab_7_1_population_by_religious_belief_and_by_municipality_size_groups/$File/PVCR071_ENG.pdf|title=Population by religious belief and by municipality size groups|access-date=23 April 2012|publisher=Czech Statistical Office|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221184947/http://www.czso.cz/sldb2011/eng/redakce.nsf/i/tab_7_1_population_by_religious_belief_and_by_municipality_size_groups/%24File/PVCR071_ENG.pdf|archive-date=21 February 2015}}</ref> |titlebar= |float=right |bars= {{bar percent|Undeclared|Gray|44.7}} {{bar percent|Irreligion|Black|34.5}} {{bar percent|Catholicism|DarkOrchid|10.5}} {{bar percent|Believers, not members of other religions|Chartreuse|6.8}} {{bar percent|Other Christian churches|Turquoise|1.1}} {{bar percent|Protestantism|DodgerBlue|1}} {{bar percent|Believers, members of other religions|Crimson|0.7}} {{bar percent|Other religions / Unknown|HotPink|0.7}} }} About 75%<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wingia.com/web/files/richeditor/filemanager/Czech_Republic_Tables_V3_a.pdf |title=End of year 2014 – Czech Republic |website=Wingia.com |access-date=5 January 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309123931/http://www.wingia.com/web/files/richeditor/filemanager/Czech_Republic_Tables_V3_a.pdf |archive-date=9 March 2017}}</ref> to 79%<ref name="Czech Statistical Office 27 February 2014">{{cite web|url=https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/20551795/17022014.pdf/c533e33c-79c4-4a1b-8494-e45e41c5da18?version=1.0|title=NÁBOŽENSKÁ VÍRA OBYVATEL PODLE VÝSLEDKŮ SČÍTÁNÍ LIDU|access-date=27 December 2017|publisher=Czech Statistical Office|date=27 February 2014|quote=Chapter 1. "Změny struktury obyvatel podle náboženské víry v letech 1991, 2001 a 2011"; table "Struktura obyvatel podle náboženské víry (náboženského vyznání) v letech 1991 – 2011": believers 20,8%; non-believers 34,5%; no declared religion 44,7%|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513040154/https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/20551795/17022014.pdf/c533e33c-79c4-4a1b-8494-e45e41c5da18?version=1.0|archive-date=13 May 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> of residents of the Czech Republic do not declare having any religion or faith in surveys, and the proportion of convinced [[Atheism|atheists]] (30%) is the third highest in the world behind those of [[China]] (47%) and [[Japan]] (31%).<ref name="Global Index of Religion and Atheism">[https://secularpolicyinstitute.net/survey/global-index-of-religion-and-atheism/ Global Index of Religion and Atheism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226074016/https://secularpolicyinstitute.net/survey/global-index-of-religion-and-atheism/ |date=26 December 2017 }} [http://www.wingia.com/web/files/news/14/file/14.pdf Press Release] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021065544/http://www.wingia.com/web/files/news/14/file/14.pdf |date=21 October 2013 }}. 2012. secularpolicyinstitute.net</ref>{{unreliable source|date=March 2024}} The [[Czech people]] have been historically characterized as "tolerant and even indifferent towards religion".<ref>Richard Felix Staar, ''Communist regimes in Eastern Europe'', Issue 269, p. 90</ref> The religious identity of the country has changed drastically since the first half of the 20th century, when more than 90% of [[Czechs]] were Christians.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Spousta|first=Jan|title=Changes in Religious Values in the Czech Republic|journal=Czech Sociological Review|volume=38|number=3|pages=345–363|year=2002|doi=10.13060/00380288.2002.38.3.06|url=http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/uploads/db130c52c8dced9b7b41951573d5c9e4c2eb9a33_120_spousta9.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101115817/http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/pdfs/csr/2002/03/06.pdf|archive-date=1 November 2021}}</ref> [[File:Saint WEnceslaus.jpg|thumb|[[Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia|Saint Wenceslaus]], patron saint of the Czech lands]] Christianization in the 9th and 10th centuries introduced [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]]. After the [[Bohemian Reformation]], most Czechs became [[Hussites|followers]] of [[Jan Hus]], [[Petr Chelčický]] and other regional [[Protestant Reformers]]. [[Taborites]] and [[Utraquists]] were [[Hussite]] groups. Towards the end of the [[Hussite Wars]], the Utraquists changed sides and allied with the Catholic Church. Following the joint Utraquist—Catholic victory, Utraquism was accepted as a distinct form of Christianity to be practiced in [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]] by the [[Catholic Church]] while all remaining Hussite groups were prohibited. After the [[Reformation]], some Bohemians went with the [[Lutheranism|teachings of Martin Luther]], especially [[Sudeten Germans]]. In the wake of the Reformation, Utraquist Hussites took a renewed increasingly [[anti-Catholic]] stance, while some of the defeated Hussite factions were revived. After the [[Habsburgs]] regained control of Bohemia, the whole population was forcibly converted to Catholicism—even the Utraquist Hussites. Going forward, Czechs have become more wary and pessimistic of religion as such. A history of resistance to the Catholic Church followed. It suffered a schism with the neo-Hussite [[Czechoslovak Hussite Church]] in 1920, lost the bulk of its adherents during the Communist era and continues to lose in the modern, ongoing [[secularization]]. Protestantism never recovered after the [[Counter-Reformation]] was introduced by the [[Habsburg monarchy|Austrian Habsburgs]] in 1620. Prior to the Holocaust, the Czech Republic had a sizable Jewish community of around 100,000. There are many historically important and culturally relevant Synagogues in the Czech Republic such as Europe's oldest active Synagogue, [[Old New Synagogue|The Old New Synagogue]] and the second largest Synagogue in Europe, the [[Great Synagogue (Plzeň)]]. The Holocaust decimated Czech Jewry and the Jewish population as of 2021 is 3,900.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/about/communities/CZ |title=Czechia |publisher=World Jewish Congress |access-date=16 May 2022}}</ref> According to the 2011 census, 34% of the population stated they had no religion, 10.3% was Catholic, 0.8% was [[Protestant]] (0.5% [[Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren|Czech Brethren]] and 0.4% [[Czechoslovak Hussite Church|Hussite]]),<ref>The [[Czechoslovak Hussite Church]] contains mixed Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and national elements. Classifying it as either one is disputable. For more details and dispute about this, see [[Czechoslovak Hussite Church]].</ref> and 9% followed other forms of religion both denominational or not (of which 863 people answered they are [[Neopaganism|Pagan]]). 45% of the population did not answer the question about religion.<ref name="Czech Statistical Office" /> From 1991 to 2001 and further to 2011 the adherence to Catholicism decreased from 39% to 27% and then to 10%; Protestantism similarly declined from 3.7% to 2% and then to 0.8%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.czso.cz/csu/2008edicniplan.nsf/engt/24003E05ED/$File/4032080119.pdf|title=Population by denomination and sex: as measured by 1921, 1930, 1950, 1991 and 2001 censuses|language=cs, en|access-date=9 March 2010|publisher=Czech Statistical Office|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221195344/http://www.czso.cz/csu/2008edicniplan.nsf/engt/24003E05ED/$File/4032080119.pdf|archive-date=21 February 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> The Muslim population is estimated to be 20,000 representing 0.2% of the population.<ref>{{cite web |title=Europe's Growing Muslim Population |url=http://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/29/europes-growing-muslim-population/ |publisher=[[Pew Research Center]] |date=29 November 2017 |access-date=16 May 2022}}</ref> The proportion of religious believers varies significantly across the country, from 55% in [[Zlín Region]] to 16% in [[Ústí nad Labem Region]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Data za poměrové ukazatele – sldb2021 |url=https://www.czso.cz/documents/142154812/176236044/sldb2021_pv_pomer_ukazatele.xlsx |publisher=Czech Statistical Office |access-date=13 January 2022}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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