Church not in communion: Old Catholic Church — 15,715 Orthodox Christianity and Nestorianism Orthodox Christians — around 1.6 million (1.9%) Eastern Orthodox Churches Churches of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople — 570,000 Greek Orthodox Church — 410,000 Ukrainian Orthodox Eparchy of Western Europe — 10,000 Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of the Russian Tradition in Western Europe — 200 Serbian Orthodox Church — 337,000 Russian Orthodox Church — 270,000 Romanian Orthodox Church — 150,000 Ukrainian Orthodox — 143,000 Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate — 110,000 Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate — 33,000 Bulgarian Orthodox Church — 130,000 Oriental Orthodox Churches Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch — 100,000 Armenian Apostolic Church — 35,000 Coptic Orthodox Church — 22,000 Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church — 20,000 Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church — 15,000 Nestorians Assyrian Church of the East — 10,000 Others New Apostolic Church — 341,202 (2015) Jehovah's Witnesses — 168,763 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 38,739 The Church of Almighty God — To be determined No religion As of 2021, 34.9 million or 42% of the Germans are irreligious. Before World War II, about two-thirds of the German population was Protestant and one-third was Roman Catholic. In the north and northeast of Germany especially, Protestants dominated. In the former West Germany between 1945 and 1990, which contained nearly all of Germany's historically Catholic areas, Catholics have had a small majority since the 1980s. Due to a generation behind the Iron Curtain, Protestant areas of the former states of Prussia were much more affected by secularism than predominantly Catholic areas. The predominantly secularised states, such as Hamburg or the East German states, used to be Lutheran or United Protestant strongholds. Because of this, Protestantism is now strongest in two strips of territory in the former West Germany, one extending from the Danish border to Hesse, and the other extending northeast–southwest across southern Germany. There is a non-religious majority in Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. only 19.7% belong to the two main denominations of the country. This is the state where Martin Luther was born and lived most of his life. In what used to be East Germany both religious observance and affiliation are much lower than in the rest of the country, after forty years of Communist rule. The government of the German Democratic Republic encouraged a