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The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) held their first meeting of worship in Ireland was in 1654, at the home of William Edmundson, in Lurgan. A number of quaker communities developed in Mountmellick, Baltimore and Dublin. The Methodist Church of Ireland, developed from within the established Anglican communion.
Christianity (Irish: Críostaíocht) has been the largest religion in Ireland since the 5th century. After a pagan past of Antiquity, missionaries (most famously including Saint Patrick) converted the Irish tribes to Christianity in quick order. This produced a great number of saints in the Early Middle Ages, as well as a faith interwoven with ...
v. t. e. The early medieval history of Ireland, often referred to as Early Christian Ireland, spans the 5th to 8th centuries, from the gradual emergence out of the protohistoric period (Ogham inscriptions in Primitive Irish, mentions in Greco-Roman ethnography) to the beginning of the Viking Age. The period includes the Hiberno-Scottish mission ...
A Celtic Cross in Knock, Ireland. Celtic Christianity[a] is a form of Christianity that was common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages. [1] Some writers have described a distinct Celtic Church uniting the Celtic peoples and distinguishing them from adherents of the Roman Church, while others ...
Celtic Christianity. The Catholic Church in Ireland (Irish: An Eaglais Chaitliceach in Éireann, Ulster Scots: Catholic Kirk in Airlann) or Irish Catholic Church, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See. With 3.5 million members (in the Republic of Ireland), it is the largest Christian church in Ireland.
Christianity in medieval Ireland (3 C, 20 P) Mother and baby homes in Ireland (2 C, 3 P) P. ... Pages in category "History of Christianity in Ireland"
The Reformation in Ireland was a movement for the reform of religious life and institutions that was introduced into Ireland by the English administration at the behest of King Henry VIII of England. His desire for an annulment of his marriage was known as the King's Great Matter. Ultimately Pope Clement VII refused the petition; consequently ...
This is a list of articles about religion in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Religion in the Republic of Ireland. Religion in Northern Ireland. Irreligion in the Republic of Ireland. Christianity in Ireland. History of Christianity in Ireland. Roman Catholicism in Ireland.