State religion

====Eastern Orthodoxy====
* {{flag|Greece}}: The [[Church of Greece]] is recognized by the Greek Constitution as the prevailing religion in Greece<ref name="GreeceConstitution">{{Cite web|title=Constitution of Greece|url=http://www.hri.org/docs/syntagma/artcl25.html#A3|access-date=2023-01-02|website=www.hri.org|at=Section II Relations of Church and State: Article 3}}</ref> and is the only country in the world where Eastern Orthodoxy is clearly recognized as a state religion.<ref name="EnyediMadeley2004">{{cite book|last1=Enyedi|first1=Zsolt|last2=Madeley|first2=John T.S.|title=Church and State in Contemporary Europe|year= 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1135761417|page=228|quote=Both as a state church and as a national church, the Orthodox Church of Greece has a lot in common with Protestant state churches, and even with Catholicism in some countries.}}</ref><ref name="Meyendorff1981">{{cite book|last=Meyendorff|first=John|title=The Orthodox Church: Its Past and Its Role in the World Today|year=1981|publisher=St Vladimir's Seminary Press|isbn=978-0913836811|page=155|quote=Greece therefore is today the only country where the Orthodox Church remains a state church and plays a dominant role in the life of the country.}}<!--|access-date=18 October 2015--></ref> However, this provision does not give exclusivity of worship to the Church of Greece, while all other religions are recognized as equal and may be practiced freely.<ref name="GreeceConstitution2">{{Cite web|title=Constitution of Greece|url=http://www.hri.org/docs/syntagma/artcl25.html#A13|access-date=2023-01-02|website=www.hri.org|at=Part Two Individual and Social Rights: Article 13}}</ref>

The jurisdictions below give various degrees of recognition in their constitutions to [[Eastern Orthodoxy]], but without establishing it as the state religion:
* {{flag|Bulgaria}}: In the Bulgarian Constitution, Eastern Orthodoxy is recognized as "the traditional religion" of the Bulgarian people, but the state itself remains secular.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.bg/en/const|title=The Bulgarian Constitution|publisher=Parliament of Bulgaria |access-date=20 December 2011}}</ref>
* {{flag|Cyprus}}: The [[Constitution of Cyprus]] states: "The Autocephalous [[Greek Orthodoxy|Greek-Orthodox]] [[Church of Cyprus]] shall continue to have the exclusive right of regulating and administering its own internal affairs and property in accordance with the Holy Canons and its Charter in force for the time being and the Greek Communal Chamber shall not act inconsistently with such right."<ref name="CyprusConstitution">{{cite web|url=https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Cyprus_2013.pdf?lang=en|title=Cyprus's Constitution of 1960 with Amendments through 2013|publisher=[[Constitution Project]]}}</ref>{{efn|The Constitution also states that "Any matter relating to divorce, judicial separation or restitution of conjugal rights or to family relations of the members of the Greek-Orthodox Church, shall be cognizable by family courts each of which is composed: For a divorce trial, of three judges, one of which is a lawyer ecclesiastical officer appointed by the Greek Orthodox Church and presides over the Court and the other two of high professional and moral standard belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church are appointed by the Supreme Court among lawyers. If no ecclesiastical officer is appointed as above, the Supreme Court appoints the President of the Court as well."<ref name="CyprusConstitution"/>}}
* {{flag|Finland}}: Both the [[Finnish Orthodox Church]] and the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland]] are "national churches".<ref name="Finland Constitution"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://finland.fi/Public/default.aspx?contentid=160099&nodeid=41800&culture=en-US |title=The Church in Finland today |author=Salla Korpela |date=May 2005|publisher=Finland Promotion Board; Produced by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department for Communications and Culture}}</ref>
* {{flag|Georgia}}: The [[Georgian Orthodox Church]] has a constitutional agreement with the state, the constitution recognizing "the special role of the Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia in the history of Georgia and its independence from the state".<ref>[http://www.parliament.ge/en/kanonmdebloba/constitution-of-georgia-68 Constitution of Georgia] Article 9 (1&2) and 73 (1a{{sup|1}})</ref> (See also [[Concordat of 2002]])