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The map also includes the province of Balearica. The Catholic Church in Spain has a long history, starting in the 1st century. It is the largest religion in Spain, with 58.6% of Spaniards identifying as Catholic. [1] Attempts were made from the late 1st century to the late 3rd century to establish the church in the Iberian peninsula.
Christianity began as a Jewish sect and remained so for centuries in some locations, diverging gradually from Judaism over doctrinal, social and historical differences. In spite of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire , the faith spread as a grassroots movement that became established by the third-century both in and outside the ...
1521 Ferdinand Magellan claims the Philippines for Spain, first mass and subsequent conversion to Catholicism, first in East Asia. 1522 Luther translated the Bible by himself, producing the German New Testament translation also known as the Luther Bible. 1524 The Freedom of the Will published by Erasmus.
Adoptions after 1450. 1491 – Kingdom of Kongo (Roman Catholic Church) 1519 – Tlaxcala (Roman Catholic Church) 1521 – Rajahnate of Cebu (Roman Catholic Church) 1523 – Sweden goes from Catholic to Lutheran. 1528 – Schleswig-Holstein goes from Catholic to Lutheran. 1534 – England goes from Catholic to Anglican.
The Spanish Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Spain, is part of the Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome, and the Spanish Episcopal Conference. The Spanish Constitution of 1978 establishes the non-denominationality of the State, providing that the public authorities take into account the religious beliefs of ...
Detail of the Cantiga #63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and Almanzor. [1]The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for ' reconquest ') [a] or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the ...
Spread of Christianity. Through the late 15th and early 16th centuries, European missionaries and explorers spread Catholicism to the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania. Pope Alexander VI, in the papal bull Inter caetera, awarded colonial rights over most of the newly discovered lands to Spain and Portugal. [7]
The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile. These overseas territories of the Spanish Empire were under the jurisdiction of Crown of Castile ...