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Protestantism in Poland is the third largest faith in Poland, after the Roman Catholic Church (32,440,722) and the Polish Orthodox Church (503,996). As of 2018 there were 103 registered Protestant denominations in Poland, and in 2023 there were 130,000 Protestants in the country (0.35% of the population).
Jan 20, 2021 · By the late 19th century, Protestants made up about 31% of the Greater Poland region around Poznań, 70% in Masuria and 27% in the Cieszyn region. Amongst these areas, only Cieszyn remains a centre for Protestant life in Poland today. The Cieszyn region as a centre of Protestantism in Poland. Picture display.
Holy Trinity Church, Warsaw, of Evangelical Church of Augsburg Confession in Poland. The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Republic of Poland ( Polish: Kościół Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is a Lutheran denomination and the largest Protestant body in Poland with about 61,000 members and 133 parishes. [1]
Orientation. Calvinism. Origin. 16th century. Congregations. 8. Members. 3,461 (2015) The Polish Reformed Church, officially called the Evangelical Reformed Church in the Republic of Poland (Polish: Kościół Ewangelicko-Reformowany w RP) is a historic Calvinistic Protestant church in Poland established in the 16th century, still in existence ...
The Reformation first came to Poland-Lithuania in its Lutheran form soon after 1517, finding sympathizers among the German burghers in the cities of Royal Prussia. Source for information on Reformations in Eastern Europe: Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World dictionary.
Poland, though remaining predominantly Roman Catholic, acquired a large Protestant minority in the late 16th century, when the Danzig area and its German Lutheran population came under Polish control, and when a large contingent of the Bohemian Brethren migrated to Poland after the Habsburg ruler attempted their extermination. Several Polish ...
Nov 29, 2017 · The age of Golden Liberty in Poland is a thing of a legend, and it certainly lives up to it. In its heyday, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was home to what was probably the most progressive religious movement of the time – the pacifist Minor Reformed Church of Poland, better known as the Polish Brethren.
