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In the Republic of Ireland, 87.4% of the citizens were baptised Catholic as infants while the figure for Northern Ireland is 43.8%. [26] [27] Christianity had arrived in Ireland by the early 5th century, and spread through the works of early missionaries such as Palladius, and Saint Patrick. The Church is organised into four provinces; however ...
With the partition of Ireland in 1922, 92.6% of the Free State's population were Catholic while 7.4% were Protestant. [14] By the 1960s, the Protestant population had fallen by half. Although emigration was high among all the population, due to a lack of economic opportunity, the rate of Protestant emigration was disproportionate in this period.
Pages in category "History of Christianity in Ireland" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
King James I commissions George Calvert, Sir Humphrey Wynch, Sir Charles Cornwallis and Sir Roger Wilbraham to investigate Catholic grievances in Ireland. They report that conformity should be enforced more strictly, Catholic schools be suppressed, and bad priests removed and punished.
Murtogh O'Brien (c. 1545 – 30 April 1613) was an Anglican bishop of Killaloe, in County Clare, Ireland. He was of a branch of the clan O'Brien known as O'Brien-Arra, from County Tipperary . His seat was St. Flannan's Cathedral in Killaloe , which was actually built by his 10-Great Grandfather, Donal Ó Briain, King of Thomond , King of ...
The Cambrai Homily is the earliest known Irish homily, dating to the 7th or early 8th century, and housed in the Médiathèque d'agglomération de Cambrai.It is evidence that a written vernacular encouraged by the Church had already been established alongside Latin by the 7th century in Ireland.
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The High Kings of Ireland continued pagan practices until the reign of Diarmait mac Cerbaill c. 558, traditionally the first Christian High King. The monastic movement, headed by abbots, took hold in the mid 6th century, and by 700 Ireland was at least nominally a Christian country, with the church fully part of Irish society.