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Number of Adherents
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==Number of Adherents==
The most common estimates of the number of Orthodox Christians worldwide is approximately 225-300 million individuals.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church#Number_of_adherents Eastern Orthodox Church: Number of Adherents] at Wikipedia.</ref>.
Other estimates such as in ''The Encyclopedia of the Developing World''<ref>Thomas M. Leonard. ''Encyclopedia of the Developing World: Vol 3, O-Z Index''. Taylor & Francis, 2006.</ref> places the number of overall Orthodox worshippers in 1996 at 182 million individuals, including the following breakdown<ref>[http://books.google.ca/books?id=08OV704armMC&pg=PA1377&lpg=PA1377&dq=%22close+to+30+million+are+Orthodox.+Next+in+size%22&source=web&ots=SLtmIxhkD5&sig=z3i1_nplvWtewJ2EC_-QmLdNT1U&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA1378,M1 Encyclopedia of the Developing World: Vol 3, O-Z Index] Thomas M. Leonard. Taylor & Francis, 2006, Page 1377:
* Russian Federation: 70-80 million
* Ukraine: close to 30 million
* Romania: 20 million
* Greece: 9.5 million
* United States: close to 7 million
* Serbia and Montenegro: close to 7 million
* Bulgaria: 6 million
* Belarus: 5 million
* Kazakhstan: 4 million
* Moldavia: 3 million
* Georgia: 2.8 million
* FYROM: 1.2 million
* Uzbekistan: 900,000
* Poland: 800,000
* Germany: 550,000
* Australia: 480,000
* United Kingdom: 440,000
* Latvia: 400,000
* Estonia: 300,000
* France: 260,000
* Lithuania: 150,000
* Austria: about 70,000
* Switzerland: about 70,000
* Finland: 56,000
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==See also==