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51.70 percent of the people in Fresno, California are religious. Catholicism: Mexico is 85 percent catholic and Latin America as a whole leads the world in the highest catholic share of the population. 48.8 percent of the population of Fresno is Hispanic, which is the majority. California is 38 percent Hispanic, out of the entire Hispanic population of California 83 percent are Mexican origin. The religious majority in the city of Fresno, California is Catholicism at 31.82 percent. Armenian (Orthodox): The first Armenians by the names of Hagop and Garabed Seropian to live in Fresno arrived in 1881. In 1897 the first Armenian Presbyterian church was built, today there is about 40,000 Armenians in Fresno. 6.01 percent of Fresno is classified

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