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Birgitta Holm (died after 1755), was a Swedish Roman Catholic convert. She converted from the Lutheran Church of Sweden to Roman Catholicism at a time when this was a serious crime against the state.
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea – 1.8 million [99] Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod – 1.7 million [100] Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia – 0.9 million [101] Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa – 0.6 million [102] Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil – 0.6 million [103] [104]
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; 1536 – Denmark-Norway and Iceland go from Catholic to Lutheran; 1553 – England returns from Anglican to Catholic
The Lutheran Confessions: History and Theology of the Book of Concord (2012) Bodensieck, Julius, ed. The encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church (3 vol 1965) vol 1 and 3 online free; Brauer, James Leonard and Fred L. Precht, eds. Lutheran Worship: History and Practice (1993) Brug, John F., Fredrich II, Edward C., Schuetze, Armin W., WELS and Other ...
The largest denomination is the Catholic Church with more than 1.3 billion members. [24] The smallest of these groups may have only a few dozen adherents or an unspecified number of participants in independent churches as described below. As such, specific numbers and a certain size may not define a group as a denomination.
Churches converted from the Roman Catholic Church to the Church of Sweden (1 C, 202 P) Pages in category "Lutheran churches converted from Roman Catholicism" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 233 total.
The peace institutionalised the Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist religious divide in Germany, with populations either converting, or moving to areas controlled by rulers of their own faith. One authority puts France's losses against Austria at 80,000 killed or wounded and against Spain (including the years 1648–1659, after Westphalia) at 300,000 ...
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia has 708,773 members. [10] The Catholic Church in Latvia has 430,000 members. [ 15 ] Historically, the west and central parts of the country have been predominantly Protestant, while the east – particularly the Latgale region – has been predominantly Catholic, although Catholics are now common in ...