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The second-largest Christian group in Europe were the Orthodox, who made up 32% of European Christians. [3] About 19% of European Christians were part of the mainline Protestant tradition. [3] Russia is the largest Christian country in Europe by population, followed by Germany and Italy. [3]
1054 – Byzantine Empire, Kingdom of Georgia, Alania, Bulgaria, Serbs, and Rus' are Orthodox Catholics with East-West Schism while Western Europe becomes Roman Catholic; 1096 – Maronites return from Monothelite to Catholic [16] [17] c. 1100 – Circassia (most of the country would remain pagan in spite of Georgian expansion into the region)
According to the 2015 Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe survey by the Pew Research Center, 57.9% of the Central and Eastern Europeans identified as Orthodox Christians, [22] and according to a 2018 study by the Pew Research Center, 71.0% of Western Europeans identified as Christians, 24.0% identified as ...
The Christianization of Moravia refers to the spread of the Christian religion in the lands of medieval Moravia (Great Moravia). Constantine and Methodius in Rome, 11th century fresco What modern historians designate as Great Moravia was a Slavic state that existed in Central Europe from around 830 to the early 10th century.
"The Life of Saint Adalbert Bishop of Prague and Martyr (Translated by Cristian Gaşpar)" (2013). In Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe (Tenth-Eleventh Centuries) (Edited by Gábor Klaniczay, translated by Cristian Gaşpar and Marina Miladinov, with an introductory essay by Ian Wood) [Central European Medieval Texts, Volume 6 ...
A Christian presence can certainly be documented from the 2nd century. [5] A decorated casket-mount depicting the marriage at Cana and other scenes from the Bible was unearthed in the canabae, or civil settlement, at the fort of Intercisa (now Dunaújváros). [6] The first Christians were immigrants, particularly from Syria, Italy and Greece ...
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
Christian societies prospered among the Mongols, in the Nubian kingdoms, Ethiopia, and Caucasian Armenia and Georgia. Between the ninth and twelfth centuries, politicization and Christianization developed the states of East-Central Europe.