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In the north, however, Christianity provided the cultural and religious cement that helped hold Portugal together as a distinctive entity, at least since the reconquest of Porto in 868 by Vímara Peres, the founder of the First County of Portugal. By the same token, Christianity was the rallying cry of those who rose up against the Moors and ...
Western Christianity was introduced to the province of Lusitania, what is now Portugal under the Roman Empire in the first half of the first millennium AD. The present-day Portuguese state was founded in 1139 by King Afonso Henriques during the Reconquista , in which the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula reconquered the South ...
The Lusitanian Catholic Orthodox Church (Portuguese: Igreja Católica Ortodoxa Lusitana) is a Christian denomination in Portugal. Hierarchy The Lusitanian Orthodox ...
Eastern Christianity in Portugal (1 C) Protestantism in Portugal (3 C, 4 P) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Portugal (1 C, 2 P) A.
Western Christianity. Sites associated with Western Christianity (Roman Catholicism, including sites now in Protestant parts of Europe). ... Fátima, Portugal ...
Porto, Portugal: Tipo-Lito de Gonçalves & Nogueira, 1928. Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica. Lusitanian Church, Catholic Apostolic Evangelical: A Century of Portuguese Anglican Witness. Vila Nova de Gaia: [s.n.], 1985. Igreja Lusitana Católica Apostólica Evangélica (Portugal). Ecclesia. Orgão Oficial Da Igreja Lusitana ...
Rev. Rodolpho Hasse visited Portugal in 1952, followed by the president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil (IELB). They intended to introduce a radio program and investigate the possibility of missionary work in Portugal. IELB's 32nd National Convention officially authorized the beginning of work in Portugal in 1954.
Throughout the 19th and 20th century churches were planted in Madeira, Azores, Portugal. In 1926 a Presbytery was formed. In 1944 the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Portugal was formed. In 1946 a Theological Seminary was formed in Carcavelos, but moved to Lisbon in 1970. The denomination is the oldest non-Catholic church in Portugal.