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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 the only "Hungarian Orthodox Church” in history. The Sremski Karlovci, formed in 1765, was comprised of all the Orthodox Serbs found in the Kingdom of Hungary, and consisted of six suffragan sees on 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 [[Church of Serbia]], the [[Church of Romania]], or the [[Church of the Czech/Slovak RepublicsLands and Slovakia]].
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*John Meyendorff, J., ''The Orthodox Church'', Crestwood, NY, 1996, p. 146.