Religion in Norway

Religion in Norway is dominated by Lutheran Christianity, with 63.7% of the population belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway in 2022. The Catholic Church is the next largest Christian church at 3.1%. The unaffiliated make up 18.3% of the population. Islam is followed by 3.4% of the population.

Religions in Norway (31 December 2019)

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway (68.68%)

Catholic Church (3.08%)

Pentecostal congregations (0.76%)

Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox (0.53%)

Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (0.36%)

Other Christian denominations (2.21%)

Islam (3.41%)

Buddhism (0.40%)

Hinduism (0.21%)

Secular Humanism (1.85%)

Unaffiliated (18.32%)

Other religion (0.09%)

A bill passed in 2016 and effective as of 1 January 2017 created the Church of Norway as an independent legal entity. Until the 2012 constitutional amendment Lutheranism was the state religion of the country. The Church of Norway will still obtain financial support from the state of Norway, along with other religious communities.

Early Norwegians, like most Scandinavians, were once adherents of Norse paganism; the Sámi having a shamanistic religion. Norway was gradually Christianized by Christian missionaries between 1000 and 1150. Before the Protestant Reformation in 1536/1537, Norwegians were part of the Catholic Church.

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