Religion & Beliefs

The Church of England, a Christian Protestant denomination, is the only recognized state-sanctioned religion in the United Kingdom. Less than half of the population now attends church services or professes a belief in God, reflecting a significant decline in the role of the church in Britain since the middle of the twentieth century.

A third of the population, on average, is thought to be agnostic. Ten percent of people in the UK identify as Roman Catholics, compared to thirty percent who belong to the official Church of England. Outside of Protestantism and Catholicism, those who identify as Christians accept the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist Protestant churches. Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism are minorities in the UK, where Christianity predominates.