Christians Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...

, most of whom are ethnic

Russians , native_name_lang = ru , image = , caption = , population = , popplace = 118 million Russians in the Russian Federation (2002 ''Winkler Prins'' estimate) , region1 = , pop1 ...

, constitute less than 9% of the population in

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

Eastern Orthodoxy in Turkmenistan Eastern Orthodoxy in Turkmenistan is a major proportion of Christianity in Turkmenistan. Turkmenistan has a Islam, Muslim majority. The Eastern Orthodox Christians are about 5% of the population. Russian Orthodox Church in Turkmenistan The Russ ...

is the main form of Christianity.

Russian Orthodox Church

The

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is officially recognized and constitute the largest religious minority.Turkmenistan
/ref> The Church is under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Archbishop in

Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of ...

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...

Other denominations

Around 200

Catholics The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

live in

.Turkmenistan, Statistics by Diocese, by Catholic Population [Catholic-Hierarchy]
/ref> There are also ethnic Germans, who are practising Lutherans; while there are few Evangelicalism, Evangelical Christians in Turkmenistan. Evangelical Christian Baptist Church of Turkmenistan,

Seventh-day Adventist Church The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, and ...

of Turkmenistan, Full Gospel Christian Church of Turkmenistan (

Pentecostals Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement

), Light of the East Church (Dashoguz Pentecostal Church), Greater Grace Church of Turkmenistan,

International Church of Christ The International Churches of Christ (ICOC) is a body of co-operating, religiously conservative and racially integrated

, and the

New Apostolic Church The New Apostolic Church (NAC) is a Christian denomination, Christian church that split from the Catholic Apostolic Church during an 1863 schism in Hamburg, Germany. The church has existed since 1863 in Germany and since 1897 in the Ne ...

of Turkmenistan are all registered Christian denominations. Since 2003 all religious groups have to register and unregistered activity is illegal.

References

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Russian Orthodox Church

Other denominations

See also

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