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Catholicism Has Been Predominant Religion France More Than Millennium Though Not Actively Practised Today Was Among 47,000 Religious Buildings France 94% Roman Catholic During French Revolution Activists Conducted Brutal Campaign Of De-Christianisation Ending Catholic Church State Religion Some Cases Clergy Churches Were Attacked With Iconoclasm Stripping Churches Of Statues Ornament After Back Forth Of Catholic Royal Secular Republican Governments During 19th Century France Established Laïcité Passage Of 1905 Law Separation Of Churches StateSince 1905 French Government Has Followed Principle Of Laïcité Which Prohibited From Recognising Any Specific Right Religious Community (except Legacy Statutes Like Those Of Military Chaplains Local Law Alsace-Moselle) Recognises Religious Organisations According Formal Legal Criteria That Do Not Address Religious Doctrine Conversely Religious Organisations Expected Refrain From Intervening Policy-making Certain Groups Such Scientology Children Of God Unification Church Or Order Of Solar Temple Considered Cults (sectes French), Therefore Do Not Have Same Status Recognised Religions France Secte Considered Pejorative Term FranceHealth
Main article History of France Lyon home football club Olympique Lyonnais (OL) whose men's team plays Ligue 1 has won championship of that competition seven times all consecutively from 2002 2008) OL played until December 2015 43,000-seat Stade de Gerland which also hosted matches of 1998 FIFA World Cup Since 2016 team has played Parc Olympique Lyonnais 59,000-seat stadium located eastern suburb of Décines-Charpieu OL operates women's team Olympique Lyonnais Féminin which competes dominates Division 1 Féminine They streak of 11 top-flight championships (2007–present) additionally claim four titles won original incarnation of FC Lyon women's football club that merged into OL 2004 (the current FC Lyon was founded 2009) OL women have also won UEFA Women's Champions League five times including two most recent editions 2016 2017Lyon has rugby union team Lyon OU Top 14 which moved into Stade de Gerland full-time 2017–18 addition Lyon has rugby league side called Lyon Villeurbanne that plays French rugby league championship club's home Stade Georges Lyvet VilleurbanneLyon also home Lyon Hockey Club ice hockey team that competes France's national ice hockey league Patinoire Charlemagne seat of Club des Sports de Glace de Lyon club of Olympic ice dancing champions Marina Anissina Gwendal Peizerat world champions Isabelle Delobel Olivier Shoenfelder Villeurbanne also has basketball team ASVEL that plays Astroballe arenaStreet art. See also Religious buildings Paris Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon fine arts museum housed former convent of 17th century including Baroque chapelle Saint-Pierre. Vélib' Place de la Bastille Cité Scolaire Internationale de Lyon or Lycée de Gerland Major religious communities Marseille include! Ambox rewrite.svg Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon houses Musée des Hospices Civils permanent exhibit tracing history practice of medicine from Middle Ages modern times.
Judaism (0.8%) The population of city of Lyon proper was 491,268 January 2011 census, 14% of whom were born outside Metropolitan FranceMain sights. Main article Arrondissements of Lyon, Starting 1903 Tour de France oldest most prestigious of Grands Tours world's most famous cycling racePopular sports played France include football judo tennis, rugby pétanque France has hosted events such 1938 1998 FIFA World Cups, 2007 Rugby World Cup, will host 2023 Rugby World Cup country also hosted 1960 European Nations' Cup UEFA Euro 1984 UEFA Euro 2016 Stade de France Saint-Denis France's largest stadium was venue 1998 FIFA World Cup 2007 Rugby World Cup finals Since 1903 France hosts annual Tour de France most famous road bicycle race world France famous its 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car endurance race Several major tennis tournaments take place France including Paris Masters French Open one of four Grand Slam tournaments French martial arts include Savate FencingPierre de Coubertin father of modern Olympic Games, Ambox current red.svg No religion (39.6%). Main articles History of France § Napoleonic France (1799–1815) History of France § Long 19th century 1815–1914 First French Empire Second French Empire French colonial empire.
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