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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
