East-West Church & Ministry Report
Vol. 8, No. 1, Winter 2000, Covering the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe



Religious Movements in Lithuania
 
Confession Membership Weekly attendance Churches
Roman Catholics 2,500,000 
(70 percent of the population)
500,000 
(14 percent of the population)
688
Russian Orthodox 180,000 5,000 31
Old Believers 50,000 1,500-2,000 27
Lutherans 30,000 3,000 48
Reformed 11,000 400-500 8
New Apostolic Church 5,600 4,000 45
Muslims 5,000 500 5
Jews <5,000 200-300 6
Word of Faith 2,800 3,500 56
Jehovah's Witnesses 2,200 2,500 18
Pentecostals (all) 1,800 2,000 38
Baptists (all) 1,100 1,300 32
Adventists 1,000 600 21
Eastern Rite Catholics 900 ? 5
Mormons 450 300-400 3
Hare Krishna 300 (?) 200-300 12
Methodists 220 250-300 6
Buddhists 200 (?) 200 (?) 7
Nondenominational 140 250 3

Sources:  Donatas Glodenis and Holger Lahayne, eds.  Religijos Lietuvoje [Religions in Lithuania] (Siauliai: Nova Vita, 1999); e-mail from Donatas Glodenis, 31 January 2000.  Religijos Lietuvoje is available for $8 (U.S.) from Nova Vita Publishers, Box 75, 5400 Siauliai, Lithuania; tel: 370-1-440-419; fax: 370-1-438-378; E-mail: novavita@siauliai.omnitel.net.


"Religious Movements in Lithuania," East-West Church & Ministry Report 8 (Winter 2000), 9.

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