Here, most inhabitants chose the Greek Catholic Church over the Roman Catholic one. At the other end of the scale was the district of Medzilaborce in north-eastern Slovakia close to the border with Poland, where just 8.7 per cent called themselves members of the Catholic Church. The district of Námestovo in northern Slovakia, which includes the town of the same name, was the only one where more than 90 per cent of inhabitants (92.4 per cent) claimed allegiance to the Catholic Church. Districts where the number of inhabitants without religious affiliation reached more than 40 per cent are those within the capital and the south-eastern district of Rožňava.įrom a regional point of view, the Catholic Church remains the dominant church in all Slovak regions, with more than a 50-per cent share with the exception of the regions of Bratislava and Košice.
Most people without any religious affiliation live in the Bratislava Region, almost 40 per cent. Eastern religions have seen an increase in adherents, but, as Tížik notes, these are still statistically insignificant. Ten years ago, that figure was 3.347 million people, or about 62 per cent.Īs well as a quarter of the population claiming to have no religious affiliation at all, there has also been an increase in the number of people who claim allegiance to other churches outside of the major registered ones. The 2021 census showed that there are 3.04 million people claiming allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church, which is about 55.8 per cent of Slovakia’s population. The Roman Catholic Church, which remains the largest and most influential religious organisation in the country based on the census results, lost some 300,000 members since the census 10 years previously. In 2011, that number was 725,000 people, or 13.4 per cent. In 2021, 1.3 million people in Slovakia, which translates into 23.8 per cent of its inhabitants, did not claim allegiance to any church.
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