Modern Day

The United Kingdom is a predominantly Protestant nation brought together under the Church of England. Even though England much like most other European cultures at the moment sees a development towards becoming a more secular culture, about half of the English people consider themselves Anglicans.

In effect the Anglican Church has just under than 2 million people. The second largest English protestant denomination is the Presbyterian, but also a significant numbers of Methodists and Baptists can be found.

Until the 16th century England was a Catholic nation. And even though wars was fought and Catholicism was banned for many a decade, the Catholic fate still has a significant number of followers with nearly 2 million throughout the country. This means the active membership is roughly equal to that of the Church of England.

In today's modern British church you can still observe big variations in the form the services take. In some churches you can find the more ceremonious "high" services being typical for the English church's Catholic roots, while other churches have the less ceremonious (typically Protestant) "low" services.

Multiple Religions

In the later years religions from East and South Asia have started to play a bigger role in the bigger cities.