What are the religious beliefs in Finland and Sweden? What religion do you believe in most? Is there a church in every city?

Finland mainly believes in Christian Lutheranism, Sweden mainly believes in Christian Lutheranism, and Christianity Lutheranism is the most. Every city has a church.

77.7% of the residents believe in Christian Lutheranism, 1.2% believe in Orthodox Church. The rest include a few Christians, Protestants, other sects, Roman Catholics, Muslims and Jews. Finland has two official languages: 93% of the population speaks Finnish and 6% speaks Swedish.

Christian Lutheranism is the national religion of Sweden, and the king believes in it. According to the law, citizens who do not believe in the state religion are not allowed to be prime ministers.

The church is divided into 13 parishes, 2,365 parishes and 3,249 priests. From 65438 to 0993, the number of members of the national church accounted for about 88% of the national population. The Swedish Church enjoys special privileges in this country. The king is the supreme head of the church and has the right to designate archbishops and bishops on the list of three candidates recommended by the religious conference.

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Lutheranism is the collective name of various church groups based on Martin Luther's religious thought. Because its core is "justification by faith", it is also called Lutheranism.

Lutheranism is the product of German religious reform, which was founded by Martin Luther in Germany on 1529. The establishment of this new Sect marks the birth of Protestantism.

At present, believers are mainly distributed in five Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland), Estonia, Latvia, Germany, the United States and other countries and regions 100. There are 427 independent church groups in the world, with about 68.4 million followers.

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