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  2. Eastern Orthodox Church in Germany - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Orthodox Church has a presence in Germany. With up to 2 million adherents, the Church is Germany's third-largest Christian denomination after Roman Catholicism and the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). It has grown due to immigration from Eastern Europe, especially Romania, Greece, the former Soviet Union, and the former Yugoslavia.

  3. Religion in Germany - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Germanic paganism was a polytheistic religion practised in prehistoric Germany and Scandinavia, as well as Roman territories of Germania by the first century AD. It had a pantheon of deities that included Donar/Thunar, Wuotan/Wodan, Frouwa/Frua, Balder/Phol/Baldag, and others shared with northern Germanic paganism. [13]

  4. Christianity in East Germany - Wikipedia

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    The leaders of Federal Germany and the EKD signed an agreement to provide military chaplains for West German armed forces, igniting outcry in East Berlin. This led to calls for the churches in the GDR to officially disassociate themselves from the West German ‘NATO Church’.

  5. Christianisation of the Germanic peoples - Wikipedia

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    Most of the East Germanic peoples, such as the Goths, Gepids, and Vandals, along with the Langobards and the Suevi in Spain converted to Arian Christianity, [6] a form of Christianity that rejected the divinity of Christ. [7] The first Germanic people to convert to Arianism were the Visigoths, at the latest in 376 when they entered the Roman ...

  6. Category:Religion in East Germany - Wikipedia

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    Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; ... Pages in category "Religion in East Germany" The following 3 pages are in this category, out ...

  7. Eastern religions - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern religions are the religions which originated in East, South and Southeast Asia and thus have dissimilarities with Western, African and Iranian religions. [1] Eastern religions include: [2] [3] Taoic religions or East Asian religions such as Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion, and Shinto

  8. History of Eastern Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Christianity has been, historically, a Middle Eastern religion with its origin in Judaism. Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions and churches which developed in the Middle East, Egypt, Asia Minor, the Far East, Balkans, Eastern Europe, Northeastern Africa and southern India over several centuries of religious antiquity.

  9. Eastern Orthodoxy in Europe - Wikipedia

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    European Eastern Orthodox Christians are predominantly present in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and they are also significantly represented in diaspora throughout the Continent. The term Eastern Orthodox Europe is informally used to describe the predominantly Eastern Orthodox countries of Belarus , Bulgaria , Cyprus , Georgia , Greece ...