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  2. Christianity in Europe - Wikipedia

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    As of 2010, Roman Catholics were the largest Christian group in Europe, accounting for more than 48% of European Christians. [3] The second-largest Christian group in Europe were the Orthodox, who made up 32% of European Christians. [3] About 19% of European Christians were part of the mainline Protestant tradition. [3]

  3. Religion in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Catholicism (majorly followed to the Roman–Latin Catholic Church with various minorities of the few Greek Catholic Churches in the Eastern European regions, and the Armenian Catholic Church in Armenia and its diaspora) is the largest denomination with adherents mostly existing in Latin Europe (which includes France, [56] Italy, [56] Spain ...

  4. History of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    [346] [347] Nevertheless, the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos still asked Pope Urban II for help with the Seljuk Turks in 1081, [348] and Urban appealed in 1095 to European Christians to "go to the aid of their brethren in the Holy Land". [349] [350] [351] Urban's message had great popular appeal and resulted in the First Crusade.

  5. Decline of Christianity in the Western world - Wikipedia

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    A decline of Christian affiliation in the Western world has been observed in the decades since the end of World War II.While most countries in the Western world were historically almost exclusively Christian, the post-World War II era has seen developed countries with modern, secular educational facilities shifting towards post-Christian, secular, globalized, multicultural and multifaith ...

  6. Timeline of official adoptions of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    1054 – Byzantine Empire, Kingdom of Georgia, Alania, Bulgaria, Serbs, and Rus' are Orthodox Catholics with East-West Schism while Western Europe becomes Roman Catholic 1096 – Maronites return from Monothelite to Catholic [ 14 ] [ 15 ]

  7. Christianity by country - Wikipedia

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    Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.

  8. Spread of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Bart D. Ehrman attributes the rapid spread of Christianity to five factors: (1) the promise of salvation and eternal life for everyone was an attractive alternative to Roman religions; (2) stories of miracles and healings purportedly showed that the one Christian God was more powerful than the many Roman gods; (3) Christianity began as a ...

  9. Catholic Church in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Adherence to Catholicism in Europe (2010) About 35% [1] of the population of Europe today is Catholic, but only about a quarter of all Catholics worldwide reside in Europe. . This is due in part to the movement and immigration at various times of largely Catholic European ethnic groups (such as the Irish, Italians, Poles, Portuguese, and Spaniards) to continents such as the Americas and Austra