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Christianity in France is the largest religion in the country. France is home to The Taizé Community , an ecumenical Christian monastic fraternity in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire , Burgundy. With a focus on youth, it has become one of the world's most important sites of Christian pilgrimage with over 100,000 young people from around the world ...
In 2019, the Eurobarometer, a survey funded by the European Union, found that Christianity was the religion of 47% of the French, with Catholicism being the main denomination with 41%, followed by Orthodox Christian, Protestants and other Christians with 2% each one. [43] France is home to a number of Marian shrines, notably the Cathedrale ...
Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, Vol I: Background and the Roman Catholic Phase (1958) Latourette, Kenneth Scott. Christianity in a Revolutionary Age. Vol. IV : The 20th Century in Europe; the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Eastern Churches (1969) McManners, John. Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France (2 vol 1998) Mourret, Fernand.
The first written records of Christians in France date from the 2nd century when Irenaeus detailed the deaths of ninety-year-old bishop Pothinus of Lugdunum and other martyrs of the 177 persecution in Lyon. The emperor Theodosius I (r. 379-95) makes Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380.
The foundations of secularism, or the historical underpinnings that facilitated its emergence, largely originated within the Church itself. The investiture controversy between Pope Gregory VII and the German Emperor in the 11th century, in which the Pope sought to define his independence and that of the Church alongside the political powers, is a fundamental point.
History of Protestantism in France (1 C, 17 P) Pages in category "History of Christianity in France" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The Carolingian Church encompasses the practices and institutions of Christianity in the Frankish kingdoms under the rule of the Carolingian dynasty (751-888). In the eighth and ninth centuries, Western Europe witnessed decisive developments in the structure and organisation of the church, relations between secular and religious authorities, monastic life, theology, and artistic endeavours.
It was a decade-long struggle that had as much to do with the concerns of northern France to extend its control southwards as it did with heresy. In the end, both the Cathars and the independence of southern France were exterminated. After a papal legate was murdered by the Cathars in 1208, Pope Innocent III declared the Albigensian Crusade. [5]