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In 2016, Ipsos Global Trends, a multi-nation survey held by Ipsos and based on approximately 1,000 interviews, found that Christianity is the religion of 45% of the working-age, internet connected population of France; 42% stated they were Catholic, 2% stated that they were Protestants, and 1% declared to belong to any Orthodox church.
[citation needed] The King of France was known as "His Most Christian Majesty". Following the Protestant Reformation, France was riven by sectarian conflict as the Huguenots and Catholics strove for supremacy in the Wars of Religion until the 1598 Edict of Nantes established a measure of religious toleration.
About 42% of them were Calvinists , 21% were evangelical Protestants, 17% were Lutherans and another 20% were affiliated with other Protestant churches. [8] The percentage rose to 3.1% in 2017, mainly due to recent conversions. Out of 100% of people that have become Protestants, 67% were Catholic and 27% were of no religion. [3]
Protestantism in France has existed in its various forms, starting with Calvinism and Lutheranism since the Protestant Reformation. John Calvin was a Frenchman, as were numerous other Protestant Reformers including William Farel , Pierre Viret and Theodore Beza , who was Calvin's successor in Geneva .
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The Catholic Church is "the Catholic Communion of Churches, both Roman and Eastern, or Oriental, that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome ()." [2] The church is also known by members as the People of God, the Body of Christ, the "Temple of the Holy Spirit", among other names. [2]
The population of France is roughly 50% Roman Catholic, 4–5% Muslim, around 3% Protestant, 1% Jewish, 1% Buddhist, 1% other denominations, and 40% not religious (with 30% of atheists). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Church attendance is low among Catholics, and polls indicate that a significant proportion of the population is atheist or agnostic .
Catholic writer Paul Claudel wrote in his diary on 5–7 July 1940: [18] "[...] France is delivered after sixty years under the yoke of the anti-Catholic radical party (professors, lawyers, Jews, Freemasons). The new government invokes God and returns the Grande Chartreuse to the monks. Hope for deliverance from universal suffrage and ...