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The Church of Ireland's national Cathedral and Collegiate Church of Saint Patrick, Dublin. Protestantism is a Christian minority on the island of Ireland.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.
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), an African Protestant Pentecostal evangelical church, established its first church in Ireland in 1998 in Mary's Abbey in Dublin. [20] Also in 1998 the Cherubim and Seraphim (Nigerian church) inaugurated its first church in Ireland, today there are 7 branches of the church.
It has been suggested that Catholic Ireland has become more Protestant in social terms, whilst Protestantism itself has become more Catholic in some of its practices. [15] Despite this, Protestantism since 2002 has been relegated to the third largest group recorded on the census, having been overtaken by those who choose "No Religion".
The spread of Protestantism in the country was aided by its large ethnic German minority, which could understand and translate the writings of Martin Luther. While Lutheranism gained a foothold among the German-speaking population, Calvinism became widely accepted among ethnic Hungarians.
Protestants by country Region Country Total population (year) % Protestant Protestant total Asia Afghanistan 29,928,987 0.03% 10,000 Europe Albania 3,563,112 0.23% 8,191 Africa Algeria 35,531,853 1.62% 250,000 Europe Andorra 71,201 2.1% 1,495 Africa Angola 19,600,000 30.6% 5,997,600 North America
The counties in Ireland subjected to British plantations (1556 to 1620). Note that this map is a simplified one, as the amount of land colonised did not cover the entire shaded area. Henry's and Edward's efforts were then reversed by Queen Mary I of England (1553–1558), who had always been Catholic.
Richard Woodward, an Englishman who became the Anglican Bishop of Cloyne.He was the author of some of the staunchest apologetics for the Ascendancy in Ireland. The Protestant Ascendancy (also known as the Ascendancy) was the sociopolitical and economical domination of Ireland between the 17th and early 20th centuries by a small Anglican ruling class, whose members consisted of landowners ...
The history of Ireland from 1691–1800 was marked by the dominance of the Protestant Ascendancy.These were Anglo-Irish families of the Anglican Church of Ireland, whose English ancestors had settled Ireland in the wake of its conquest by England and colonisation in the Plantations of Ireland, and had taken control of most of the land.