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The declining majority religion in Chile, according to a 2019 survey Encuesta Nacional Bicentenario, is still Christianity (63%), with an estimated 45% of Chileans belonging to the Catholic Church, 32% not religiously affiliated, 18% to Protestant or Evangelical churches and 5% to any other religion. The religiously unaffiliated population (32%) includes: atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion. | The declining majority religion in Chile, according to a 2019 survey Encuesta Nacional Bicentenario, is still Christianity (63%), with an estimated 45% of Chileans belonging to the '''Catholic Church''', 32% not religiously affiliated, 18% to Protestant or Evangelical churches and 5% to any other religion. The religiously unaffiliated population (32%) includes: atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion. | ||
Protestants represent 13% of Chilean people. Protestants first arrived in the first half of the nineteenth century, with American missionary David Trumbull and with German immigrants from Protestant parts of Germany, mainly '''Lutherans'''. Later came '''Anglicans, Presbyterians, Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists, Methodists, Pentecostals''', and other Protestant Christians. '''Seventh-Day Adventist''' missionaries first arrived in 1895. | |||
<ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Religion in Chile", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Chile, accessed 8 March 2020. </ref><br> | <ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Religion in Chile", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Chile, accessed 8 March 2020. </ref><br> | ||