Talk:Religion in Armenia

Latest comment: 1 year ago by HistoryofIran in topic Religion percentage in Armenia

Atheists, Skeptics?

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The article claims that almost 95% of Armenia's population follows Armenian Christian Church. That is hard to believe, becuase the country also has a high number of people who have no religion at all (atheists, agnostics, skeptics). I think some info should be found to demonstrate that. Has there been any such survey to show what percentage these minorities make? Pantonal (talk) 01:31, 25 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

I am Kurdish who live in Armenia.The number of atheists or agnostics are really minimum.95-98% of population are christians. Attactos (talk) 11:53, 5 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Christianity since First Century>

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If Christianity was introduced by two apostles in the first century, how is it that Christianity has only existed in Armenia for 1,700 years? Isn't that inconsistent? --Anietor (talk) 02:25, 24 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

census data

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I took a look at the reference for the census data and translated the table on page 7 (http://armstat.am/file/article/sv_03_13a_520.pdf) with massive help some online translating software.

Religion Armenian Population Percent
Armenian Apostolic Հայ Առաքելակ 2797187 92.66%
Catholic Կաթոլիկ 13996 0.46%
Orthodox Ուղղափա 7587 0.255
Nestorakan Նեստորակ 1733 0.06%
Evangelical Ավետարանակ 29280 0.97%
Jehovahs Witnesses Եհովայի վկա 8695 0.29%
Protestant Բողոքական 773 0,03%
Mormon Մորմոն 241 0.01%
Molokan Մոլոկա 2874 0,10%
Strand-Fadinakan Շար-Ֆադինական 23374 0.77%
Heathen Հեթանոսական 5416 0.18%
Muslim Մահմեդական 812 0.03%
other 5299 0.18%
no religion 34373 1.14%
no reply 10941 0.36%
Chnshatsner Չնշածն 76273 2.53%
Total 3018854 100%

However several of the words seem to have been transliterated rather than translated. Any idea what 'Strand-Fadinakan' or 'Chnshatsner' mean? Or Nestorakan or Molokan? Once we get that sorted out we can put this table in the article. --Erp (talk) 00:59, 25 October 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Erp: Alright, so I don't know what Shar-Fadinakan means, but Chnshats means 'not marked', Heathen (Hetanosakan) refers to a type of Paganism, Nestorakan refers to the Church of the East (also called the Nestorian Church), and Molokan refers to a esoteric Christian sect from Russia. --92slim (talk) 00:23, 5 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
I did some hunting on Shar-Fadinakan and it seems to refer to the religion practiced by most Yazidis (who are also counted as an ethnic group in the census). It shows up as a stub article Sharfadin --Erp (talk) 08:24, 5 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

Religion percentage in Armenia

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Hi everyone, I would like to change the percentage of religion in Armenia to its correct number, the numbers that were given aren't calculated correctly and in other countries I have found that the number I want to give is correct. Can you all give me permission to edit the page to give in the correct number? Artasheshian (talk) 10:29, 24 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

Read my edit summary. --HistoryofIran (talk) 11:05, 24 February 2023 (UTC)Reply