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Birgitta Holm (died after 1755), was a Swedish Roman Catholic convert. She converted from the Lutheran Church of Sweden to Roman Catholicism at a time when this was a serious crime against the state.
1521 – Rajahnate of Cebu (Roman Catholic Church) 1523 – Sweden goes from Catholic to Lutheran; 1528 – Schleswig-Holstein goes from Catholic to Lutheran; 1534 – England goes from Catholic to Anglican; 1536 – Denmark-Norway and Iceland go from Catholic to Lutheran; 1553 – England returns from Anglican to Catholic
In 1998, almost five years after he took "early retirement" as Lutheran bishop, Archbishop Joseph MacNeil invited Jacobson to consider becoming a priest. Jacobson and his wife Carolyne, who live on a farm near Bashaw, Alberta, began the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Bashaw in 1999 and became Roman Catholics at the Easter Vigil of 2000.
Churches converted from the Roman Catholic Church to the Church of Sweden (1 C, 202 P) Pages in category "Lutheran churches converted from Roman Catholicism" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 233 total.
Former Catholics or ex-Catholics are people who used to be Catholic for some time, but no longer identify as such. This includes both individuals who were at least nominally raised in the Roman Catholic faith, and individuals who converted to it in later life, both of whom later rejected and left it, or converted to other faiths (including the related non-Roman Catholic faiths).
He and his wife first became interested in the faith after the birth of their first child. A friendship with a Catholic priest later helped lead to Hank and his wife's conversion in 1959. He was known to frequently read Thomas à Kempis' 15th-century book The Imitation of Christ, which he kept in his locker. [1] [2]
The Catholic Church considers the law of clerical celibacy to be not a doctrine, but a discipline. Exceptions are sometimes made, especially in the case of married male Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant clergy who convert to the Catholic Church, [10] and the discipline could, in theory, be changed for all ordinations to the priesthood.