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By the 13th century Roman Catholicism had become the dominant religion throughout Poland. [3] In adopting Christianity as the state religion, Mieszko sought to achieve several personal goals. [5] He saw Poland's baptism as a way of strengthening his hold on power, as well as using it as a unifying force for the Polish people.
In 1386, Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania converted to Catholicism and married Queen Jadwiga of Poland. This act enabled him to become a king of Poland himself, [36] and he ruled as Władysław II Jagiełło until his death in 1434. The marriage established a personal Polish–Lithuanian union ruled by the Jagiellonian dynasty.
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, [b] formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania [c] and also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic, [d] [9] [10] was a federative real union [11] between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, existing from 1569 to 1795.
The Polish–Lithuanian state had become an influential player in Europe and a vital cultural entity, spreading Western culture eastward. Following the Reformation gains accompanied by religious toleration, the Catholic Church embarked on an ideological counter-offensive and Counter-Reformation claimed many converts from Protestant circles.
Central Europe in the High Middle Ages: Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, c. 900-c. 1300. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-78156-5. Manteuffel, Tadeusz (1982). The Formation of the Polish State: The Period of Ducal Rule, 963–1194 (Translated and with an Introduction by Andrew Gorski). Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1682-4.
Painting commemorating Polish–Lithuanian union; ca. 1861. The motto reads "Eternal union".. The Polish–Lithuanian union was a relationship created by a series of acts and alliances between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that lasted for prolonged periods of time from 1385 and led to the creation of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, or the "Republic ...
Dominika Gala grew up going to Mass with her grandmother and attending Catholic school in Warsaw. A decade later, when the Catholic leadership backed a near-total abortion ban in Poland, Gala made ...
The Catholic Church in Poland succeeded in subordinating the Eastern Orthodox Church through the Union of Brest-Litovsk (1595–1596). [1] Jesuit schools gained significant renown at that time. [ 1 ] [ 12 ] [ 16 ] From the 17th century, agents of Counter-Reformation became increasingly intolerant, succeeding in introducing censorship, including ...