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In the north, however, Christianity provided the cultural and religious cement that helped hold Portugal together as a distinctive entity, at least since the reconquest of Porto in 868 by Vímara Peres, the founder of the First County of Portugal. By the same token, Christianity was the rallying cry of those who rose up against the Moors and ...
Western Christianity was introduced to the province of Lusitania, what is now Portugal under the Roman Empire in the first half of the first millennium AD. The present-day Portuguese state was founded in 1139 by King Afonso Henriques during the Reconquista , in which the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula reconquered the South ...
History of Christianity in Portugal (1 C) L. Christianity in Lisbon (2 C, 8 P) M. Christian missionaries in Portugal (4 C, 1 P) Christian monasteries in Portugal (2 C ...
The Lusitanian Catholic Orthodox Church (Portuguese: Igreja Católica Ortodoxa Lusitana) is a Christian denomination in Portugal. Hierarchy
Throughout the 19th and 20th century churches were planted in Madeira, Azores, Portugal. In 1926 a Presbytery was formed. In 1944 the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Portugal was formed. In 1946 a Theological Seminary was formed in Carcavelos, but moved to Lisbon in 1970. The denomination is the oldest non-Catholic church in Portugal.
Rev. Rodolpho Hasse visited Portugal in 1952, followed by the president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil (IELB). They intended to introduce a radio program and investigate the possibility of missionary work in Portugal. IELB's 32nd National Convention officially authorized the beginning of work in Portugal in 1954.
Category: History of Christianity in Portugal. ... History of Catholicism in Portugal (5 C, 11 P) This page was last edited on 17 June 2023, at 22:58 (UTC). Text ...
The rise of Protestantism led to major divisions within Western Christianity, which still persist, and wars—for example, the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585–1604 had religious as well as economic causes. In and after the Age of Discovery, Europeans spread Western Christianity to the New World and elsewhere. Roman Catholicism came to the Americas ...