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Roman Pannonia. Fresco depicting the Fall of Adam and Eve in an early Christian crypt in Sopianae (now Pécs). Celtic, Illyrian, Iranian and Dacian tribes inhabited the lands now forming Hungary in classical antiquity. [1] The Romans started the conquest of the tribes of Transdanubia —the western region of present-day Hungary—in 35 BC. [2]
Religion in Hungary is varied, with Christianity being the largest religion. In the national census of 2022, 42.5% of the population identified themselves as Christians, of whom 29.2% were adherents of Catholicism (27.5% following the Roman Rite, and 1.7% the Greek Rite), 9.8% of Calvinism, 1.8% of Lutheranism, 0.2% of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and 1.5% of other Christian denominations.
Historically, Eastern Orthodoxy was an important denomination in the medieval and early modern Kingdom of Hungary. In modern times, Eastern Orthodoxy is mainly the religion of some ethnic minorities. In the 2001 national census, only 15,928 persons declared themselves Orthodox Christians (0.21% of the people with declared religious affiliation ...
The Kingdom of Hungary was a Central European regional power, encompassing about 320,000 km 2 (120,000 sq mi) of land in the 15th century. It was a composite monarchy: the Hungarian kings also ruled Croatia, and two provinces, Transylvania (in the east) and Slavonia (in the southwest), had their own peculiar administrative systems. [30]
t. e. The Hungarian Greek Catholic Church[a] or the Byzantine Catholic Church in Hungary is a sui iuris (autonomous) Eastern Catholic church based in Hungary. As a particular church of the Catholic Church, it is in full communion with the Holy See. [3][4][1] Its liturgical usage is that of the Byzantine Rite in the Hungarian language.
Undeclared (2%) Hungarian Catholics, like elsewhere, are part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. According to a 2019 survey by Eurobarometer, 62% of Hungarians consider themselves Catholics. The Latin Church in the country is divided into 12 dioceses, including 4 archdioceses.
Reformed Great Church of Debrecen in Debrecen, Hungary Hungarian Reformed Church building in Manhattan, New York. The Reformed Church in Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarországi Református Egyház, MRE, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒrorsaːgi ˈrɛformaːtuʃ ˈɛɟhaːz]) is the largest Protestant church in Hungary, with parishes also among the Hungarian diaspora abroad.
The preamble of the Constitution states that Hungary was founded as part of Christian Europe and that Christianity has a role in preserving nationhood. [ 6 ] The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union has challenged Hungary's unequal treatment of religious organizations, but the Constitutional Court has ruled that freedom of religion does not entail a ...