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The Huguenots (/ ˈ h juː ɡ ə n ɒ t s / HEW-gə-nots, UK also /-n oʊ z /-nohz; French:) are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Besançon Hugues (1491–1532), was in common use by ...
According to a 2020 survey, Protestants made up 3% of the French population. [2] A renewed interest in Protestantism has been brought by numerous Evangelical Protestants, while the membership of Calvinist and Lutheran churches has stagnated; many of the latter two confessions have merged into the United Protestant Church of France.
Marianne Carbonnier-Burkard (1949–), historian, vice-president of the Society for the History of French Protestantism and a member of the National Ethics Advisory Committee for Life and Health Sciences. [327] Bernard Cottret (1951–2020), historian. [328] Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794–1872), historian and pastor, descendant of Agrippa ...
Henri Lanctin (1892-1986), French Protestant evangelist active in Canada; Donald Barnhouse (1895–1960), former pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church, founder of Eternity magazine; D.P. Thomson (1896–1974), Scottish evangelist, exponent of visitation and lay evangelism, Warden of the St Ninian's Training Centre, Crieff
Beginning in 1702, a group of Protestants in the region of the Cévennes mountains, known as Camisards, revolted against the government. Fighting largely ceased after 1704, only to resume in 1710 and continue sporadically for the next five years. Protestantism continued to be suppressed in France until the death of Louis XIV in 1715.
About 42% of them were Calvinists , 21% were evangelical Protestants, 17% were Lutherans and another 20% were affiliated with other Protestant churches. [8] The percentage rose to 3.1% in 2017, mainly due to recent conversions. Out of 100% of people that have become Protestants, 67% were Catholic and 27% were of no religion. [3]
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