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Over 50% of the population of Hungary is Roman Catholic. Another 20% is Calvinist. The largest minority faith group is the Lutherans. Greek or Byzantine Catholics and Eastern Orthodox do not make up a significant percentage of the demographic.
The Kingdom of Hungary, or "Realm of the Crown of St. Stephen", encompassed a very different area than the modern nation of Hungary. In one sense, one could speak of The Patriarchate of Karlowitz (Sremski Karlovci, later integrated into the Serbian Orthodox Church , as a the only "Hungarian Orthodox Church” since it was in history. The Sremski Karlovci, formed out of what was called the Carlovitz Diocese in 1765, an ecclesial jurisdiction was comprised of all the Orthodox Serbs found in the Kingdom of Hungary, and consisting consisted of six suffragan seeson Hungarian territory. Other "Hungarian Orthodox”, or Eastern Orthodox Christians of the territories of the former Kingdom of Hungary, now find themselves on Rumanian, Transylvanian, Slovak, Czech, Croatian and Bosnian territory and belong either to the Orthodox Churches of Serbia, Romania, or the Czech/Slovak Republics. =References=Meyendorff, J., The Orthodox Church, Crestwood, NY, 1996, p. 146.
