Editing Sicily (section)

=== Religion ===
{{See also|Italo-Albanian Catholic Church|History of the Jews in Sicily|History of Islam in southern Italy}}
[[File:Sicilia Noto1 tango7174.jpg|thumb|[[Noto Cathedral]]]]
As in most Italian regions, [[Roman Catholicism]] is the predominant religious denomination in Sicily, and the church still plays an important role in the lives of most people. There is also a notable small minority of Eastern-rite [[Byzantine Catholics]] which has a mixed congregation of ethnic [[Albanians]]; it is operated by the [[Italo-Albanian Catholic Church]]. Most people still attend church weekly or at least for religious festivals, and many people get married in churches. There was a wide presence of Jews in Sicily for at least 1,400 years and possibly for more than 2,000 years. Some scholars believe that the Sicilian Jewry are partial ancestors of the [[Ashkenazi Jews]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nebel |year=2001 |doi=10.1086/324070 |title=The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of the Middle East |first1=A |last2=Filon |first2=D |last3=Brinkmann |first3=B |last4=Majumder |first4=P |last5=Faerman |first5=M |last6=Oppenheim |first6=A |journal=The American Journal of Human Genetics |volume=69 |issue=5 |pages=1095–112 |pmid=11573163 |pmc=1274378}}</ref> However, much of the Jewish community faded away when they were [[Expulsion of the Jews from Sicily|expelled from the island]] in 1492. [[Islam]] was present during the [[Emirate of Sicily]], although Muslims were also expelled. Today, mostly due to immigration to the island, there are also several religious minorities, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, [[Hinduism]], Islam, Judaism, and [[Sikhism]]. There are also a some [[evangelicalism|Evangelical Christians]] who live on the island. As of 2020, there are approximately 4,989,921 Roman Catholics in Sicily constituting about 99.2% of the island's population. Additionally there are also about 23,120 members of the [[Italo-Albanian Catholic Church]] also living in Sicily constituting roughly 0.5% of the population.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catholic Church in Italy [Catholic-Hierarchy] |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/it.html |access-date=2023-08-21 |website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org}}</ref>