Religion in El Salvador
There is diversity of religious and ethnic groups among El Salvador's approximately 6.1 million inhabitants (July 2013).[2]
Religious affiliation
Denomination | Percent |
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Assemblies of God | 21.3 |
Bautista Amigos de Israel | 11.5 |
Elim | 9.0 |
Church of God | 7.0 |
Baptist | 7.0 |
Profética (Prophetic) | 6.1 |
Pentecostal | 4.5 |
Apóstoles y Profetas (Apostles and Prophets) | 3.9 |
La Luz del Mundo | 3.7 |
Jehovah's Witnesses | 3.1 |
Adventists | 2.9 |
Príncipe de Paz (Prince of Peace) | 2.2 |
Mormons | 2.0 |
Others | 12.6 |
No denomination | 2.2 |
There is some debate about percentages, the Institute of Public Opinion of the University of Central America in May 2013 found 51% of the population as Roman Catholics, and 33% as Protestant, 14% as not having a religion and the remainder (less than 2%) being Jehovah's Witnesses, Hare Krishnas, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Latter-day Saints (Mormons), and members of indigenous religions.[2] However Latinobarómetro in 2013 found 54% were Catholic, 31% Protestant, 10% atheist/agnostic/not religious, 4% other religions, and 1% did not answer.[1] It also found in 1996 that 67% of the population considered themselves Catholic and 15% Protestant.[1]
Denominations
Mision Cristiana Elim Internacional is a large pentecostal denomination started in El Salvador. It claims that its main church in San Salvador has 120,000 attending.[4] The Assemblies of God claim 285,226 members (2007).[5]
The Mormons claim 120,317 people in 164 congregations and 1 temple (2015)[6] which if correct would be just under 2% of the population. An IUDOP study in 2009 found that Mormons were 2% of the Protestants they surveyed or about .8% of the total population.[3] They started evangelizing in El Salvador in 1951.[6]
The Anglican Church in El Salvador (a diocese of the province of the Anglican Church in Central America) claims 6,000 members in 18 congregations.[7] The Baptist Association of El Salvador claims 4,427 members[8] and the Salvadorean Lutheran Synod about 15,000 in 68 congregations,[9]
See also
- Demographics of El Salvador
- Roman Catholicism in El Salvador
- Protestantism in El Salvador
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in El Salvador
- Islam in El Salvador
- Judaism in El Salvador
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Las religiones en tiempos del Papa Francisco" (PDF) (in Spanish). Latinobarómetro. April 2014. pp. 6, 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "International Religious Freedom Report for 2013". U.S. State Department. Retrieved 2015-04-25. For percentages it quotes the Institute of Public Opinion of the University of Central America
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "La religión para las y los salvadoreños" (PDF). Instituto Universitario de Opinión Pública Boletín de prensa (in Spanish) (San Salvador, El Salvador: r: Universidad Centroamericana José Simeó) 24 (4): 2. 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
- ↑ "Células". Elim Mision Cristiana. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ↑ Triplett, Don. "King's Castle 24/7 Prayer Fortress". Assemblies of God World Mission. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "El Salvador". Newsroom. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ↑ "Iglesia Anglicana de El Salvador". Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ↑ "Baptist Association of El Salvador". World Council of Churches. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ↑ "Salvadorean Lutheran Synod". World Council of Churches. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
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