Religion and History in Liechtenstein

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Liechtenstein is a small Alpine principality between Switzerland and Austria, ruled by the House of Liechtenstein since the principality was created within the Holy Roman Empire in 1719 and reigning today under Prince Hans-Adam II, who transferred day-to-day authority to his son Alois in 2004 while retaining the throne. The population is predominantly Roman Catholic, about three in four residents, reflecting the territory's long history inside Catholic Habsburg and South German lands, with a Protestant minority and, among the country's many foreign workers who commute in from Switzerland and Austria, a growing Muslim community drawn largely from the former Yugoslavia and Turkey.

The prince's family remains devoutly Catholic, and the principality's national days and public ceremonies still carry the religious character of a small European monarchy that never underwent the disestablishment its larger neighbors did, an unbroken continuity Liechtenstein shares with almost no other state in Western Europe.