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The history of religion in early Virginia begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony, in particular the commencing of Anglican services at Jamestown in 1607. In 1619, the Church of England was made the established church throughout the Colony of Virginia, becoming a dominant religious, cultural, and political force.
The established religion in England at the time of the colony's founding was the Church of England, whose basic doctrines and worship services were set out in the Book of Common Prayer. The Jamestown settlers naturally brought their religion with them and practised it in Virginia.
When the elected assembly, the House of Burgesses, was established in 1619, it enacted religious laws that made Virginia highly favor Anglicanism. It passed a law in 1632 requiring that there be a "uniformitie throughout this colony both in substance and circumstance to the cannons and constitution of the Church of England."
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.
Jewish Science, early 20th century; Rosicrucian Fellowship (Esoteric Christianity, Western Theosophy, ... A Religious History of the American People (2nd ed.). New ...
Pocahontas was viewed as a sex object by the men and held against her will. Her role at the beginning was to bring food to the early settlers of Jamestown. She eventually became educated and was baptized into the English religion. [17] At the time, the religion of the English Church was Protestantism. In 1614, she married an English settler ...
James O'Kelly was an early advocate of seeking unity through a return to New Testament Christianity. [2]: 216 In 1792, dissatisfied with the role of bishops in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he separated from that body. O'Kelly's movement, centering in Virginia and North Carolina, was originally called the Republican Methodist Church. In 1794 ...
Religious leaders from Virginia (3 C, 31 P) S. Synagogues in Virginia (5 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Religion in Virginia" ... Religion in early Virginia