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[[File:Oriental Orthodoxy by country.png|right|thumb|450px|'''Distribution of Oriental Orthodox Christians in the world by country:'''
{{legend|#550000|More than 75% of population}}
{{legend|#d40000|50–75% of population}}
{{legend|#ff0000|20–50% of population}}
{{legend|#ff5555|5–20% of population}}
{{legend|#ffaaaa|1–5% of population}}
{{legend|#ffc8aa|below 1% of population, but has local [[autocephaly]]}}
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[[Oriental Orthodox Churches]] are the churches descended from those that rejected the [[Council of Chalcedon]] in 451. Despite the similar name, they are therefore a different branch of Christianity from the [[Eastern Orthodox]]. Oriental Orthodoxy consists of several autocephalous and autonomous jurisdictions holding a single set of beliefs and united in full communion. However, they each have their own separate rites, and there are significant differences between their respective practices. Thus, there is more internal diversity of practice among the Oriental Orthodox than among the Eastern Orthodox.

==Distribution==
Oriental Orthodoxy is the dominant religion in [[Armenia]] (94%), and  [[Ethiopia]] (44%, the total Christian population being roughly 67%).{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Oriental Orthodoxy is especially the dominant religion in the two [[Ethiopia]]n regions of [[Amhara Region|Amhara]] (82%) and [[Tigray Region|Tigray]] (95%), as well as the chartered city of [[Addis Ababa]] (75%). It is also important in [[Oromia Region]] (31%).{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}

Oriental Orthodoxy is also one of two dominant religions in [[Eritrea]] (47%), especially in its highland regions [[Maekel Region]] (87%) and [[Debub Region]] (86%).{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}

It is a significant minority religion in [[Egypt]] (10%), [[Sudan]] (5%, the total Christian population being 15%), [[Syria]] (3%, the total Christian population being 10-11% the rest being Greek Orthodox, Catholic and Church of the East), [[Lebanon]] (5%, the total Christian population being 40%) and [[Kerala]], [[India]] (1%, the total Christian population being around 18%).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.syrianchurch.org/MalankaraChurch/DEFAULT.HTM |title=Church in India - Syrian Orthodox Church of India - Roman Catholic Church - Protestant Churches in India |access-date=2013-10-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016110920/http://www.syrianchurch.org/MalankaraChurch/DEFAULT.HTM |archive-date=2013-10-16 }}</ref>

==Predominantly Oriental Orthodox Christian countries==
[[Oriental Orthodoxy]] is the largest single religious faith in:
*{{flag|Armenia}}
*{{flag|Ethiopia}}
*{{flag|Eritrea}}

Countries with a high percentage of Oriental Orthodox Christians include:
*{{flag|Egypt}}
*{{flag|Sudan}}
*{{flag|Syria}}
*{{flag|Lebanon}}
*{{flag|India}}
*{{flag|Iraq}}

==Oriental Orthodox Churches in full communion==
* The [[Coptic Orthodox Church]]
** The [[British Orthodox Church]] in the United Kingdom
** The [[French Coptic Orthodox Church]] in France
* The [[Armenian Apostolic Church]]
** The [[Holy See of Cilicia]]
** The [[Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople|Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople]]
** The [[Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem]]
* The [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church]]
* The [[Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church]]
* The [[Syriac Orthodox Church]]
** The  [[Jacobite Syrian Christian Church]] in India
* The [[Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]]

== Statistics ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Country
! data-sort-type="number" | Oriental Orthodox population
! data-sort-type="number" | (%) Oriental Orthodox
|-
|{{flag|Armenia}}
|style="text-align:right;"|2,796,519<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.armstat.am/file/doc/99486278.pdf|title=Table 5.4: Population (urban, rural) by Ethnicity, Sex and Religious Belief, 2011 Census|publisher=Statistical Committee of Armenia (ARMSTAT)|access-date=13 September 2020}}</ref>
|style="background:#550000; color:white; text-align:center;"|92.60
|-
|{{flag|Australia}}
|style="text-align:right;"|51,010 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310114.nsf/home/about+tablebuilder|title=2016 Census Cultural Diversity, TableBuilder|publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics|access-date=3 September 2020}}</ref>
|style="background:#FFFFFF; text-align:center; text-align:center;"|0.2
|-
|{{flag|Canada}}
|style="text-align:right;"|36,070 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=105399&PRID=0&PTYPE=105277&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2013&THEME=95&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=|title=2011 National Household Survey: Data tables: Religion (108), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations|publisher=Statistics Canada|access-date=23 September 2020}}</ref>
|style="background:#FFFFFF; text-align:center; text-align:center;"|0.1
|-
|{{flag|Egypt}}
|style="text-align:right;"|10,309,500
|style="background:#ff5555; text-align:center;"|10-12%
|-
|{{flag|Eritrea}}
|style="text-align:right;"|2,530,000
|style="background:#d40000; color:white; text-align:center;"|47
|-
|{{flag|Ethiopia}}
|style="text-align:right;"|47,353,560 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/ethiopia/|title=The World Factbook: Africa: Ethiopia|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)|access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref>
|style="background:#d40000; color:white; text-align:center;"|43.8
|-
|{{flag|Georgia}}
|style="text-align:right;"|109,042 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://census.ge/files/results/english/22_Population%20by%20regions%20and%20religion.xls|title=Population by regions and religion|publisher=National Statistics Office of Georgia (GEOSTAT)|access-date=10 September 2020}}</ref>
|style="background:#ffaaaa; text-align:center; text-align:center;"|2.9
|-
|{{flag|Germany}}
|style="text-align:right;"|1,140,000
|style="background:#ffaaaa; text-align:center;"|1.5
|-
|{{flag|Guatemala}}
|style="text-align:right;"|350,000 <ref name="ICERGUA2015statistics">{{cite web|date=June 2009|title=Estadisticas actuales|language=Spanish|website=icergua.org|url=http://www.icergua.org/latam/estadisticas.html|access-date=2015-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009152019/http://www.icergua.org/latam/estadisticas.html|archive-date=2015-10-09|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{efn|A breakaway Catholic church was received into the Syrian Orthodox church by 2013. It is the major Oriental Orthodox denomination in Guatemala.}}
|style="background:#ffaaaa; text-align:center; text-align:center;"|2.5
|-
|{{flag|India}}
|style="text-align:right;"|3,800,059
|style="background:#ffc8aa; text-align:center; text-align:center;"|0.4
|-
|{{flag|Iran}}
|style="text-align:right;"|250,000<ref name=Farsinet>{{Cite web| last = Price | first = Massoume | title = History of Christians and Christianity in Iran | work = Christianity in Iran | publisher = FarsiNet Inc. | date = December 2002 | url = http://www.farsinet.com/iranbibl/christians_in_iran_history.html | doi =| access-date = 1 December 2009}}</ref>-300,000<ref name="IRFR2009-Iran">{{cite web  | author = U.S. State Department  | title = Iran – International Religious Freedom Report 2009  | publisher = The Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs  | date = 2009-10-26  | url = https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127347.htm  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091029231558/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127347.htm  | url-status = dead  | archive-date = 2009-10-29  | access-date = 2009-12-01}}</ref>
|style="background:#FFFFFF; text-align:center;"|0.1
|-
|{{flag|Iraq}}
|style="text-align:right;"|629,340
|style="background:#ffaaaa; text-align:center;"|2
|-
|{{flag|Israel}}
|style="text-align:right;"|38,000 {{efn|The Israeli government doesn't release denominational statistics, and classification of Christian minorities is complicated further due to the government's tendency to classify all Christians as Arab. Most Ethiopian-background Israelis are, or descended from, converts to Judaism due to the requirements of Aliyah. In collating unofficial estimates, we arrive at around 38,000 adherents: Around 17,000 Eritrean Tewahedo (many are refugees), 2,000 Ethiopian Tewahedo, 10,000 Armenian Apostolic, 8,000 Syriac Orthodox (15,000 minus 7,000 Maronites) and 1,000 Coptic Orthodox adherents in Israel. }} <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.axelhogberg.com/2nd-project|title=Church of St James Black|publisher=Axel Hogberg|access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://diaspora.gov.am/en/pages/45/israel|title=Israel|publisher=Office of the High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs|access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/goldman/6002/client_edit/fortunefeature.html|title=African Huts in Jerusalem|publisher=Shelley Fortune|access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref>
|style="background:#FFFFFF; text-align:center;"|0.4
|-
|{{flag|Jordan}}
|style="text-align:right;"|310,656
|style="background:#ffaaaa; text-align:center;"|4.8
|-
|{{flag|Kuwait}}
|style="text-align:right;"|74,000 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2010/148828.htm|title=International Religious Freedom Report 2010: Kuwait|publisher=US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor|access-date=23 September 2020}}</ref>
|style="background:#ffaaaa; text-align:center; text-align:center;"|2.18
|-
|{{flag|Palestine}}
|style="text-align:right;"|118,057
|style="background:#ffaaaa; text-align:center;"|3
|-
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|style="text-align:right;"|69,656 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.myndighetensst.se/download/18.619a13c216d889e2bad4b1fa/1572609036593/The%20Religious%20landscape_La%CC%8Aguppl.pdf|title=The Religious Landscape of Sweden: Affinity, Affiliation and Diversity in the 21st Century|publisher=Swedish Agency for Support to Faith Communities |access-date=10 September 2020}}</ref>
|style="background:#ffc8aa; text-align:center; text-align:center;"|0.7
|-
|{{flag|Sudan}}
|style="text-align:right;"| 500,000
|style="background:#ff5555; text-align:center;"| 1
|-
|{{flag|Syria}}
|style="text-align:right;"|1,800,400
|style="background:#ff5555; text-align:center;"|8
|-
|{{flag|Tajikistan}}
|style="text-align:right;"|80,000
|style="background:#ffaaaa; text-align:center;"|1.18
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}}
|style="text-align:right;"|180,000<ref name="cia-rel">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html#tu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613003300/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html#tu|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 13, 2007|title=Religions|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|access-date=9 February 2013}}</ref>
|style="background:#FFFFFF; text-align:center;"|0.1
|-
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|style="text-align:right;"|41,200 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://faithsurvey.co.uk/download/csintro2.pdf|title=Introduction: UK Christian Statistics 2: 2010-2020|publisher=faithsurvey.org.uk|access-date=10 September 2020}}</ref>
|style="background:#FFFFFF; text-align:center; text-align:center;"|0.1
|-
|{{flag|United States}}
|style="text-align:right;"|492,000 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://orthodoxreality.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2020CensusGeneralReport1.pdf|title=US Religion Census 2020: Dramatic Changes in American Orthodox Churches|publisher=OrthodoxReality.org|access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref>
|style="background:#FFFFFF; text-align:center; text-align:center;"|0.1
|}

==See also==
* [[Christianity by country]]
* [[List of Christian denominations by number of members]]

'''Other religions:'''
* [[List of countries by Muslim population|Islam by country]]
* [[Judaism by country|Jews by country]]
* [[Hinduism by country]]
* [[Buddhism by country]]
* [[Irreligion by country]]

'''General:'''
* [[List of religious populations]]

== References ==
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