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The oldest known of Italy's Protestant churches, the Waldensian Evangelical Church, is a pre-Lutheran Protestant denomination, which was founded by Peter Waldo in the 12th century and, after the Protestant Reformation, adhered to Calvinist theology and became the Italian branch of the Reformed churches.
Causes of the Italian Reformation were diverse: the precociousness of humanism, associated with the Italian revival; the rule of foreign powers (e.g. Spain in southern Italy, the Holy Roman Empire in the North), which were propagating other forms of Catholicism contrary to the Italian tradition; need of a deeper and more personal relation with God; a defence of Italian democratic and ...
German Protestants have been supportive of the Waldensians in Italy since the seventeenth century. During the Nazi occupation of North Italy in the Second World War , Italian Waldensians were active in saving Jews faced with imminent extermination, hiding many of them in the same mountain valley where their own Waldensian ancestors had found ...
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The FCEI, formed in 1967, [2] includes the historical Protestant churches of Italy, that is to say the Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches (a united denomination comprising the Waldensian Evangelical Church and the Methodist Evangelical Church, 35,000 members), the Baptist Evangelical Christian Union of Italy (15,000), the Lutheran Evangelical Church in Italy (7,000), and other minor ...
In 1967, the church had 30,000 members in Italy (plus some 15,000 affiliates in Argentina and Uruguay), [4] and was a founding member of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in Italy (FCEI), [5] an ecumenical body comprising mainly historical Protestant denominations.
The term protestant, though initially purely political in nature, later acquired a broader sense, referring to a member of any Western church which subscribed to the main Protestant principles. [18] A Protestant is an adherent of any of those Christian bodies that separated from the Church of Rome during the Reformation, or of any group ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 November 2024. Catholic Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi. Saint Francis is one of the patron saints of Italy. Christianity in Italy has been historically characterised by the dominance of the Catholic Church since the East–West Schism. However, the country is also home to significant Christian ...