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The Church of Ireland's national Cathedral and Collegiate Church of Saint Patrick, Dublin. Protestantism is a Christian minority on the island of Ireland.In the 2011 census of Northern Ireland, 48% (883,768) described themselves as Protestant, which was a decline of approximately 5% from the 2001 census.
World War I battle deaths also hit the Protestant population hard, which further spurred a migration of young Irish Protestant women to Britain to seek husbands. In the book Buried Lives , based largely on records held by the Church of Ireland, Robin Bury has argued that there were cases of violence against Protestants during the Civil War.
By 2050, some project Protestantism to rise to slightly more than half of the world's total Christian population. [41] [d] According to Hans J. Hillerbrand, Protestant and Catholic share of the global Christian population will almost be the same by 2050, with Protestants exhibiting a significantly higher growth rate. [42]
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), an African Protestant Pentecostal evangelical church, established its first church in Ireland in 1998 in Mary's Abbey in Dublin. [20] Also in 1998 the Cherubim and Seraphim (Nigerian church) inaugurated its first church in Ireland, today there are 7 branches of the church.
Early Christian Ireland began after the country emerged from a mysterious decline in population and standards of living that archaeological evidence suggests lasted from c. 100 to 300 AD. During this period, called the Irish Dark Age by Thomas Charles-Edwards , the population was entirely rural and dispersed, with small ringforts the largest ...
The counties in Ireland subjected to British plantations (1556 to 1620). Note that this map is a simplified one, as the amount of land colonised did not cover the entire shaded area. Henry's and Edward's efforts were then reversed by Queen Mary I of England (1553–1558), who had always been Catholic.
Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World (2017) excerpt, covers last five centuries; Winship, Michael P. Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America (Yale UP, 2019) excerpt; Wylie, James Aitken. The History of Protestantism (3 vol. 1899) online free
Protestantism in Georgia (country) (1 C, 2 P) Protestantism in Germany (11 C, 18 P) ... Protestantism in Ireland; Protestantism in the Republic of Ireland; J.