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**immoceefe** · 11-17-2007, 11:51 PM

According to Wikipedia (sometimes suspect) there are today 27,000 parish churches in Russia. We can only speculate on the average size of membership, but 4-5 million may not be an unreasonable number to project, i.e. approx. 150 - 200 members per.

This would represent approx. 3% to 5% of the population. However, many people in Russia consider themselves to be Orthodox who do not attend Church regularly, because of its legacy, but who knows the numbers? However, many official pronouncements basically treat every man, woman and child in Russia as Orthodox, which leads to the incredible figure of 300 million Orthodox world-wide as an often quoted figure in the press. These unfortunate exaggerations lead to equally unfortunate conclusions.

11-17-2007, 11:51 PM	#28
immoceefe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 474 Senior Member	According to Wikipedia (sometimes suspect) there are today 27,000 parish churches in Russia. We can only speculate on the average size of membership, but 4-5 million may not be an unreasonable number to project, i.e. approx. 150 - 200 members per. This would represent approx. 3% to 5% of the population. However, many people in Russia consider themselves to be Orthodox who do not attend Church regularly, because of its legacy, but who knows the numbers? However, many official pronouncements basically treat every man, woman and child in Russia as Orthodox, which leads to the incredible figure of 300 million Orthodox world-wide as an often quoted figure in the press. These unfortunate exaggerations lead to equally unfortunate conclusions.
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