Timeline of official adoptions of Christianity

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This is a timeline showing the dates when countries or polities made Christianity the official state religion, generally accompanying the baptism of the governing monarch.

Adoptions of Christianity to AD 1450

  • c. 34 or 200 – Osroene – disputed; both dates claimed
  • 179 – Silures; traditional date, now considered questionable[1]
  • 301 – Christianization of Armenia
  • 301 - Foundation of San Marino
  • c. 313 – Caucasian Albania (Udi)[2]
  • c. 319 – Christianization of Iberia (Georgia)[3][4][5]
  • c. 325 –
    Ethiopian Orthodox Church
    )
  • 337 –
    Constantine I
    )
  • 361 – Rome returns to paganism under
    Julian the Apostate
  • 364 – Rome returns to Christianity, specifically the Arian Church
  • c. 364 – Vandals (Arian Church)
  • 376 – Goths and Gepids (Arian Church)
  • 380 – Rome goes from Arian to Catholic/Orthodox (both terms are used refer to the same Church until 1054)
  • 411 – Kingdom of Burgundy (Nicene Church)
  • c. 420 – Najran (Nicene Church)
  • 448 – Suebi (Nicene Church)[6]
  • c. 450 – Burgundy goes from Nicene to Arian[7]
  • 451 – Aksum and Najran are Coptic with
    Chalcedonian Schism
    .
  • 466 – Suebi go from Chalcedonian to Arian
  • 473 – Ghassanids (Chalcedonian Church)
  • 480 – Lazica (Chalcedonian Church)
  • 496 – Franks (Chalcedonian Church)
  • 506 – Iberia goes from Chalcedonian to Apostolic
  • c. 510 – Ghassanids go from Chalcedonian to Coptic
  • 516 – Burgundy returns from Arian to Chalcedonian[8]
  • c. 543 – Makuria (Chalcedonian), Nobatia and Alodia (Coptic Church)
  • c. 550 – Suebi return from Arian to Chalcedonian
  • c. 558 –
    Christianization of Ireland
    (Celtic Church)
  • c. 563 – Picts (Celtic Church)[9]
  • c. 568 – Lombards (Arian Church)
  • 569 – Garamantes (Chalcedonian Church)
  • 589 – Visigoths go from Arian to Chalcedonian
  • 591 – Lombards go from Arian to Chalcedonian
  • c. 592 –
    Lakhmids
    (Nestorian Church)
  • 601 – Kent (Chalcedonian Church)
  • 604 – East Anglia and Essex (Chalcedonian)
  • 607 – Iberia returns from Apostolic to Chalcedonian
  • 610 – Armenia and Caucasian Albania go from Chalcedonian to Apostolic[10]
  • 616 – Kent and Essex return to paganism
  • c. 620 – Alemanni (Chalcedonian Church)
  • 624 – Kent returns from pagan to Chalcedonian
  • 627 – Lombards return from Chalcedonian to Arian
  • 627 – Northumbria – (Chalcedonian Church); East Anglia returns from Chalcedonian to pagan
  • 630 - East Anglia returns from pagan to Chalcedonian
  • 635 – Wessex (Chalcedonian Church)
  • 653 – Lombards return from Arian to Chalcedonian
  • 653 – Essex returns from pagan to Chalcedonian
  • 655 – Mercia (Chalcedonian Church)
  • 675 – Sussex (Chalcedonian Church)
  • 692 – Ireland goes from Celtic to Chalcedonian
  • 696 – Bavaria (Chalcedonian)
  • c. 700 – Circassia (most of the country would remain pagan)
  • 710 – Picts go from Celtic to Chalcedonian
  • c. 710 – Makuria goes from Chalcedonian to Coptic
  • 724 – Thuringia
  • 734 – Frisians
  • 785 – Saxons
  • c. 805
    Duchy of Lower Pannonia[11]
  • 840s – Navarre[12]: 146 
  • 863 – Moravia
  • 864 – Christianization of Bulgaria
  • c. 869 –
    Christianization of the Serbs
  • 879 – Duchy of Croatia[13]
  • 884 – Bohemia
  • 911 – Normans
  • 960 – Denmark
  • 966 – Christianization of Poland
  • c. 989 – Christianization of Kievan Rus'
  • 995 – Norway
  • 999 – Faroe Islands
  • c. 1000 Christianization of Hungary with the first real Christian king(Roman Catholic became official but Orthodox(Eastern) existed as well since 973 onwards even after 1054).
  • c. 1000 –
    Christianisation of Iceland
  • 1007 –
    Kerait Khanate – Nestorian Church[14]
  • c. 1008 – Sweden
  • 1054 –
    East-West Schism
    while Western Europe becomes Roman Catholic
  • 1124 –
    Conversion of Pomerania
  • 1160s – Obotrites
  • c. 1200 – (
    Southwestern) Finland
  • 1227 – Livonia (including mainland Estonia and northern Latvia), Cumania (Transylvania)
  • 1241 – Saaremaa
  • 1260 – Curonians
  • 1290 – Semigallians
  • 1387 – Christianization of Lithuania[15]
  • 1413 – Samogitia[16]

Adoptions after 1450

See also

Annotations

  1. ^ Circassian paganism remained the religion of the majority of the population until the 17th century.

References

  1. ^ Silures at HistoryFiles
  2. ^ The Caucasus & Globalization, Vol 2, 2008, p. 101
  3. ^ Toumanoff, Cyril, "Iberia between Chosroid and Bagratid Rule", in Studies in Christian Caucasian History, Georgetown, 1963, pp. 374-377. Accessible online at "Iberia between Chosroid and Bagratid Rule by Cyril Toumanoff. Eastern Asia Minor, Georgia, Georgian History, Armenia, Armenian History". Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
  4. ISBN 978-1-4443-3361-9
    . Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  5. ^ "The Development of Christianity in Georgia". www.atour.com. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  6. ^ Hubert Jedin, 1980, The Imperial Church from Constantine to the Early Middle Ages p. 226.
  7. ^ Jodocus Birkhaeuser, 1898, History of the Church, from Its First Establishment p. 148.
  8. ^ Jodocus Birkhaeuser, 1898, History of the Church, from Its First Establishment p. 148.
  9. ^ "The Celtic Church in Scotland", The Celtic Magazine Vol 11, 1886 p. 102.
  10. doi:10.1163/2211-2685_eco_a599
    . Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  11. ^ Alexandru Magdearu, The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins, p. 117.
  12. ISBN 0631175652
    .
  13. ^ Alexandru Magdearu, The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins, p. 117.
  14. ^ İsenbike Togan , 1999, Flexibility and Limitation in Steppe Formations: The Kerait Khanate p. 60.
  15. ISBN 963-9116-42-4
    .
  16. ISBN 963-9116-42-4
    .
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