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Irish Catholics. Irish Catholics (Irish: Caitlicigh na hÉireann) are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland [12][13] whose members are both Catholic and Irish. They have a large diaspora, which includes over 31 million American citizens, [14] plus over 7 million Irish Australians, of whom around 67% adhere to Catholicism. [15][16][17]
Christianity (Irish: Críostaíocht) has been the largest religion in Ireland since the 5th century. After a pagan past of Antiquity, missionaries (most famously including Saint Patrick) converted the Irish tribes to Christianity in quick order. This produced a great number of saints in the Early Middle Ages, as well as a faith interwoven with ...
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) held their first meeting of worship in Ireland was in 1654, at the home of William Edmundson, in Lurgan. A number of quaker communities developed in Mountmellick, Baltimore and Dublin. The Methodist Church of Ireland, developed from within the established Anglican communion.
In the 2011 census of Northern Ireland, 48% (883,768) described themselves as Protestant, which was a decline of approximately 5% from the 2001 census. [1][2] In the 2011 census of the Republic of Ireland, 4.27% of the population described themselves as Protestant. [3] In the Republic, Protestantism was the second largest religious grouping ...
While Ireland was traditionally Catholic throughout much of its modern history, [20] irreligion in Ireland increased seven-fold between the 1991 census and 2016 census, [21] and further increased as of the 2022 census. As of the 2022 census 14% of the population was irreligious. [1]
Celtic Christianity. The Catholic Church in Ireland (Irish: An Eaglais Chaitliceach in Éireann, Ulster Scots: Catholic Kirk in Airlann) or Irish Catholic Church, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See. With 3.5 million members (in the Republic of Ireland), it is the largest Christian church in Ireland.
Data from the 2021 census released on Thursday showed 45.7% of respondents now identified as Catholic or were brought up Catholic, compared with 43.5% identifying as Protestants. A decade ago the ...
The Republic of Ireland covers all bar six northeastern counties. Protestantism in the Republic of Ireland refers to Protestantism in the Republic of Ireland and its predecessor, the Irish Free State. Protestants who are born in the Republic of Ireland are Irish Citizens. Protestants who are born in Northern Ireland are British and / or Irish ...