RELIGIONS OF HUNGARY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 23, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 12.

RELIGIONS OF HUNGARY.

THE recent religious statistics of Hungary contain some interesting data. Of the 17,000,000 inhabitants, 8,820,770 are adherents of the Roman Catholic Church; 2,632,303, of the Greek Oriental Church; 2,225,126, of the Reformed Churches; 1,667,980, of the United Greek; 1,204,030, of the Lutheran; 61,645, of the Unitarian; and 9,581, of other churches. The Jews number 725,222. Since 1850 the Roman Catholics have increased from 47.46 per cent. of the population to 50.84; the Greek Orientals have decreased from 17.88 to 15.17; the Reformed, from 13.53 to 12.83; the United Greeks, from 10.35 to 9.61; the Lutherans, from 7.64 to 6.94; while the Unitarians have increased from .35 to .36, and the Jews from 2.79 to 4.18. Of the total population, 7,500,000 are Magyars, 5,000,000 are Slavs, 2,500,000 are Roumanians, and 2,000,000 are Teutons. The Reformed and Unitarian Churches are made up almost entirely of Magyars; the Roman Catholics consist chiefly of Magyars, Germans, and Croatians, while the rest of the Slavs and the Roumanians belong to the Oriental Greek and the United Greek Churches. The Lutheran Churches consist largely of Magyars, while in Upper Hungary the Slovaks constitute a large element. There are few if any other lands under the sun in which there is a more polyglot Christianity than in Hungary.—The Independent.