Religion in the Republic of Macedonia Religion in the Republic of Macedonia In the Republic of Macedonia, the most common religion is Orthodox Christianity, practiced by most of the ethnic Macedonians. The vast majority of the Orthodox Christians in the country belong to the Macedonian Orthodox Church, which declared autocephaly from the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1967. Muslims are the second-largest religious group with almost one-third of the population adhering to Islam, mainly from the country's Albanian and Turkish minorities. There are also many other religious groups in Macedonia, including the Catholic Church, Protestantism, and Judaism. In 2011, through a survey carried out by Ipsos MORI
Portuguese people Portuguese people Portuguese people are a Romance ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese. Their predominant religion is Christianity, mainly Roman Catholicism, though vast segments of the population, especially the younger generations, have no religious affiliation. Historically, the Portuguese people's heritage includes the pre-Celts and Celts (Celtiberians, Lusitanians, Gallaecians, Oestriminis, Turduli and Celtici) - from whom the majority of the population descends. Then the Romans, Greeks, Scandinavians, migratory Germanic tribes like the Suebi, Vandals, Visigoths (Western Goths) and Buri who settled in what is today's Portugal The Roman Republic conquered the Iberian Peninsula