Christianity in Europe

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Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, in Spain

Pauline Epistles were addressed to Christians living in Greece, as well as other parts of the Roman Empire
.

According to a 2010 study by the Pew Research Center, 76.2% of the European population identified themselves as Christians.[3]

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] Russia is the largest Christian country in Europe by population, followed by Germany and Italy.[3]

Since at least the legalization of Christianity by the Roman Emperor

Oriental Orthodoxy and the Church of the East since the time of Christ. Christian culture has been an important force in Western civilization, influencing the course of philosophy, art, and science.[4][5]

Historically, Europe has been the center and "cradle of

identity.[10][11][12] Europe has a rich Christian culture, especially as numerous saints and martyrs and almost all the popes were European themselves. All of the Roman Catholic popes from 741 to 2013 were from Europe.[13] Europe brought together many of the Christian holy sites and heritage and religious centers.[14]

History

Early history

Patron saints of Europe
.
St. Peter's Basilica

Historians believe that

2 Thessalonians) and Rome (Romans
) between the 50s and 70s of the first century.

Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow

The Record of Saint Dorotheus (Bishop of Tyre) is that the Church at Tyre sent Aristobulus (of the seventy) to Britain as bishop in AD 37. The Church seems to have been begun by him around the Bristol Channel area and 150 years later we have names of bishops recorded. By AD 550 there are recorded 120 bishops spread throughout the British Isles.[citation needed] Before they were a recognized religion in Europe, Christians faced punishment and persecution for their first centuries in Europe, especially during the first. They were targeted by Emperor Nero who is rumored to have ordered the colossal fire in Rome, destroying the city in AD 64. The reasons for their persecution vary. Many believe Christians to have been scapegoats, when the real issues were local or political.

Western World" is intimately connected with the idea of "Christendom", especially since Christianity in the Middle East was marginalized by the rise of Islam from the 7th century, a constellation that led to the Crusades, which although unsuccessful militarily were an important step in the emergence of a religious identity of Europe. At all times, traditions of folk religion existed largely independent from official denominations or dogmatic theology.[4]

From the Middle Ages onwards, as the centralized Roman power waned in southern and central Europe, the dominance of the Catholic Church was the only consistent force in Western Europe.[4]

Movements in

Catholicism with Greek thought imported by Christian pilgrims.[17][18][19]

East–West Schism and Protestant Reformation

Canterbury Cathedral is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury of the Protestant Church of England

The

secularisation, as well as religious pluralism.[20]

According to Scholars, in 2017, Europe's population was 77.8% Christian (up from 74.9% 1970),

Cultural influences

Though Western culture contained several polytheistic religions during its early years under the Greek and Roman empires, as the centralized Roman power waned, the dominance of the Catholic Church was the only consistent force in Europe.[4] Until the Age of Enlightenment,[24] Christian culture guided the course of philosophy, literature, art, music and science.[4][25] Christian disciplines of the respective arts have subsequently developed into Christian philosophy, Christian art, Christian music, Christian literature etc.

Christianity had a significant impact on

Although the

Protestant Reformation was a religious movement, it also had a strong impact on all other aspects of European life: marriage and family, education, the humanities and sciences, the political and social order, the economy, and the arts.[40]

Denominations

Distribution of Christians in Europe by denomination[41]

  
Protestant
(17.8%)
  Other (0.5%)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Europe". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 15 January 2016. Most Europeans adhere to one of three broad divisions of Christianity: Roman Catholicism in the west and southwest, Protestantism in the north, and Eastern Orthodoxy in the east and southeast
  2. ^ a b c d e Christianity in Europe Archived 2012-01-04 at the Wayback Machine, including the Asian part of Russia, excluding the European part of Turkey
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  12. ^ "After Benedict: who will be the next Pope?". Speroforum.com. 12 February 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
  13. ^ Quoted in Robin Lane Fox, The Unauthorized Version, 1992:235.
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  27. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Archived 2015-05-03 at the Wayback Machine Jesuit
  28. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine Church and social welfare
  29. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Archived 2013-09-26 at the Wayback Machine Care for the sick
  30. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Archived 2020-05-07 at the Wayback Machine Property, poverty, and the poor,
  31. ^ Weber, Max (1905). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
  32. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Archived 2014-11-05 at the Wayback Machine Church and state
  33. Banister Fletcher
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  34. ^ Buringh, Eltjo; van Zanden, Jan Luiten: "Charting the 'Rise of the West': Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries", The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 69, No. 2 (2009), pp. 409–445 (416, table 1)
  35. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Archived 2013-09-26 at the Wayback Machine The tendency to spiritualize and individualize marriage
  36. ^ Karl Heussi, Kompendium der Kirchengeschichte, 11. Auflage (1956), Tübingen (Germany), pp. 317-319, 325-326
  37. ^ Regional Distribution of Christians Archived 2013-07-23 at the Wayback Machine Pew Research Center
  38. ^ a b c d Predominant Religions
  39. ^ Summary of Religious Bodies in Albania Archived 2013-05-30 at the Wayback Machine (Source: World Christian Encyclopedia, 2001, Oxford University Press. Vol 1: p. 51)

Notes

  1. ^ As the denomination surpass Lutheranism in its country, since the early 2010s