Recent data of Ibge Census 2022 confirm what was a trend: the Municipality of Gaucho di Arroio do Father Sports The smallest percentage of Catholics and the greatest evangelicals in Brazil, a reflection of the profound transformations in the national religious scenario
Arroio do Father, a small town in southern Rio Grande do Sul, about 270 km from Porto Alegre, has just gained an unusual importance on the Brazilian demographic map. According to the new data of the demographic census of 2022, issued by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the city is proportionally the most evangelical and the Less Catholic in Brazil.
Of the 2,353 residents of the Municipality who answered questions about religion in the 2022 census, impressive 88.7% declared each other Evangelical. On the other hand, the slice of Roman apostolic Catholics in Arroio Dore recorded the smallest percentage of the country. This is not new to the city, which already had this function in the 2010 census, when the evangelicals represented 86.1% of the population and Catholics, 8%. The 2022 census consolidates only this peculiarity.
Arroio do Father (RS): the most evangelical city in Brazil
The evangelical predominance in Arroio do Father has strong historical roots. The city, mainly colonization German and Pomeranianbrings the legacy of LutheranismOne of the aspects of Protestantism. This cultural and religious influence from the dawn of the formation of the Municipality helps to explain the scenario highlighted in the IBGE data.
The reality of Arroio makes father, although extreme in his proportions, accompanies a macrotecence observed throughout Brazil. The 2022 census revealed significant progress of the evangelical population at national level, which rose from 21.6% in 2010 26.9% in 2022 – an increase of 5.3 percentage points in 12 years. In addition, the percentage of Catholics in the country fell from 65.1% to 56.7% in the same period, reaching the lowest historical level.
Finally, this transformation into the Brazilian religious map is multifaceted, led by several social factors, migratory and evangelization. While some regions, such as the North -est and the South, still maintain the largest participation of Catholics, others, such as the North and the Midwest, show a higher percentage of evangelicals. Acre, for example, is the state with the largest percentage of evangelicals (44.4%).
It is interesting to note that Rio Grande do also hosts the city with the largest percentage of Catholics in Brazil: Montauri, In the north -est of Rio Grande do Sul, where 98.3% of the population declares Catholic.
Source: Terra
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