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Sunni Islam is the dominant religion in Jordan. Muslims make up about 95% of the country's population.

The country also boasts one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, coexisting with the rest of the population. They made up about 4.2% of the population when the country had 5 million inhabitants in 2005, down from 20% in the 1930s, mainly due to high rates of Muslim immigration into the country. More than half are '''Greek Orthodox'''. The rest are '''Latin or Greek Rite Catholics, Syrian Orthodox, Protestants and Armenians'''. Jordanian Christians in a country of almost 10 million are thought to number 250,000-400,000 excluding tens of thousands of Syrian and Iraqi Christians in the country. A 2015 study estimates some 6,500 Christian believers from a Muslim background in the country, most of them belonging to some form of Protestantism.

Anglicans/Episcopalians in Jordan are under the oversight of the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem. The Church of the Redeemer is the largest congregation by membership of any church in the entire Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. Other Episcopal churches are in Ashrafiyya, Salt, Zarqa, Marka refugee camp, Irbid, Al Husn and Aqaba.

Christian denominations in Jordan belong to four major denominational groups:<br>

 

**Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem

**Coptic Orthodox Church

**Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem

**Melkite Catholic Archeparchy of Petra

**Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem

**Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem

<ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Christianity in Jordan", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Jordan, accessed 12 April 2020. </ref><ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Religion in Jordan", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Jordan, accessed 12 April 2020. </ref><br>