Protestantism in Europe (2026)
Posted by VteChateaubriand
Protestantism in Europe (2026)
Posted by VteChateaubriand
44 Comments
RIP Scottish Presbyterianism
Estonia???
i wouldn’t say Scotland is extremely less religious than England, so why is the whole of England marked but only the more sectarian areas of Scotland?
Why is the whole of Scandinavia blue but only selected areas of the (traditionally Protestant parts of) Germany, the Netherlands and Scotland?
As a Catholic from Lithuania i am not impressed. What happened to Estonia? All orthodoxes and russians or what?
Are the Methodists included in the key as a roast? 😂. Where are they………
Aren’t Scotland and the Netherlands majority Protestant?
What about Estonia being Lutheran as well?
What about Chiesa Valdese in Italy? I understand it should belong there
The southern half of the Outer Hebrides are Roman Catholic.
Unsure how you’ve decided England and Wales. Appears to be on a parliamentary constituency basis. Is it by plurality? Because the UK is so irreligious that I’d wager the mass majority of these are not majority Church of England.
Protestantism in Scandinavian countries is purely cultural and statistical, not religious these days.
TIL that Geneva (formerly called “Protestant Rome”, home of Calvin) is no longer a Protestant city.
I’m not even dunking on OP, I looked it up and it’s true. Catholics outnumber them (in the canton at least).
Why is there no explanation of the metric? We talking majority population? What?
Protestantism is the 3rd biggest religion in France, but that map doesn’t reflect that
I like how very specific parts of the UK have just noped out of it
Lot of shite
what’s the united?
i can see the greater hungary
Eastern Orthodoxy wins by default in Estonia because so few Estonians identify with any religion. Good for them.
The idea that Anglicanism is the most prominent branch of Protestantism in Wales is for the birds.
Even back when Wales was a religious country, churches were going empty and chapels were overflowing. The Anglican church was disestablished here for a reason.
The map implies a 2026 where everyone is still actively practicing, which is a bold take for secular Europe.
Where’s the Methodist on the second map?
I see a Hungary shaped blob 👀
I’m a Hungarian Lutheran myself
Where my huguenots at
I thought all of Scotland would be protestant except a few pockets. Isn’t that a mistake
this map is BS.
sth is seriously wrong with the map
You know it’s accurate because the lines are very squiggly
The sharpness of that Catholic-Protestant border in the Rhine region is striking — it basically traces the Peace of Westphalia line from 1648. The 30 Years War established the principle of cuius regio, eius religio (whoever rules, his religion), and it calcified the denominational geography so thoroughly that it’s still visible nearly 400 years later.
That border zone specifically — the Palatinate, Alsace, parts of Switzerland and the Rhineland — produced some of the most intense emigration waves to colonial America, precisely because those communities kept getting caught between Catholic and Protestant armies. Pennsylvania Dutch country is largely a product of exactly those destabilized Rhine borderlands. The reason Penn’s colony attracted so many German-speaking settlers is that he was actively recruiting in the zones that had been most disrupted by religious warfare.
The other thing this map captures is how durable religious geography is as a demographic force. Most of those boundaries predate the nation-states that now contain them.
my beloved Reformed hometown of Debrecen, a ‘Calvinist Rome’! [https://e63nd3kx7rh.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Debreceni-reformatus-nagytemplom-7.webp](https://e63nd3kx7rh.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Debreceni-reformatus-nagytemplom-7.webp)
I think we can all agree that this map reveals no more than what the “mapmaker” did with a few minutes of his/her life.
Bad map. Spain has nearly two million evangelicals (protestants), mainly due to immigration from Latin America.
I’m Scottish. We are pretty much a non-religious nation now. Scandinavia has even less religious people than us. I think your map is wrong.
What’s the difference between Reformed and Lutheran Reformed?
Those protestants, up to no good as usual
Interesting map
Why are the areas around Bristol showing grey? They are all Anglican or Methodist. Mainly Anglican.
Not too long ago, I thought Protestants were half of near half of Germay’s population, I was very surprised when I saw they represent close to 22-23% of the population.
Since when is Scotland not Protestant anymore?
Are the Scottish not Presbyterian anyone?
As a brazilian oh how i envy this
No representation from the Walmart Synod of 1982 in Birmingham Alabama? The one true church by the way.
Most of my town’s churches in the Welsh Valleys are completely abandoned with minimal trust upkeep, we have maybe two that do small services, accurate map for here.