Religion in France

Religion in France

East End, Bourges Cathedral
Exterior view of the ship-like choir and apse with flying buttresses. Bourges Cathedral (completed 1214) from the southeast. Image credit: Holly Hayes.

More than 25 percent of the French are nonbelievers or unaffiliated; among the religious, Roman Catholicism remains dominant by a wide margin. France is the homeland of the Protestant Reformer John Calvin, but Protestant Christianity remains a small minority.