Editing Lichfield (section)

==Religion and beliefs==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="float:right;"
|-
! Religion
! Percentage of <br />population
|-
| [[Buddhism|Buddhist]]
| 0.3%
|-
| [[Christianity|Christian]]
| 66.5%
|-
| [[Hinduism|Hindu]]
| 0.3%
|-
| [[Judaism|Jewish]]
| 0.1%
|-
| [[Islam|Muslim]]
| 0.6%
|-
| [[Sikhism|Sikh]]
| 0.1%
|-
| [[Irreligion|No religion]]
| 24.9%
|-
| No answer
| 6.8%
|}
Some 66.5% of the people in the Lichfield parish area polled as part of the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 Census]] described themselves as Christian.<ref name=2011census>{{NOMIS2011|id=1170218382|title=Lichfield Parish|access-date=14 March 2018}}</ref> Lichfield has held a religious importance since St Chad became the first [[Bishop of Lichfield]] and built a monastery in 669 AD. After Chad's death in 672 AD he was buried in an [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] church which later became part of [[Lichfield Cathedral]].

[[Anglicanism]] predominates, with three parishes as well as the cathedral. [[St Michael on Greenhill, Lichfield|St Michael's]] and [[St Mary's Church, Lichfield|St Mary's]] serve one parish and [[Christ Church, Lichfield|Christ Church]] and [[The Church of St Chad, Lichfield|St Chad's]] serve the other two. Lichfield is within the [[Diocese of Lichfield]] and represented by [[Michael Ipgrave]], the current [[Bishop of Lichfield]].

There are two [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] churches, Holy Cross and SS Peter & Paul, which are part of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham|Archdiocese of Birmingham]]. [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] has a meeting house on Purcell Avenue on the north side of the city. In the city centre there is a [[Methodist Church of Great Britain|Methodist]] church and Wade Street Church, which is a [[United Reformed Church|United Reformed]] and [[Baptists|Baptist]] church. There is a [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] Church under the name Emmanuel Christian Centre in Nether Stowe and the [[Christadelphians|Christadelphian]] Hall on Station Road. [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] have a Kingdom Hall on Lombard Street.

There are five [[faith school]]s in the city, all of which are primary schools. St Michael's C of E School, Christ Church C of E School and St Chad's C of E (VC) School are all Church of England faith schools. St Joseph's RC School and SS Peter & Paul School are Roman Catholic faith schools.