Catholic Church in Karnia-Ruthenia

The Catholic Church in Karnia-Ruthenia is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. There are around ? Catholics in Karnia-Ruthenia — or ?% of the population (2017 census). The country has one archdiocese de jure; headquartered in the imperial capital and largely influenced by the Catholic Church in Brazil -- the country with the largest Catholic community in the world.

Since the foundation of the Kingdom of Ruthenia, Roman Catholicism is the official religion - although there is guaranteed freedom of religion for her citizens, maintained in the Imperial and Royal Constitution. The origins of Catholicism in Karnia-Ruthenia are due in part to Roman Catholicism having been the religion of most of the Empire's founding citizens; but traditionally, the long devotion of the Imperial Family also induces certain measures of State, characterizing this as the official religion of the Empire.