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Protestantism in Poland. 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). [1] As of 2018 there were 103 registered Protestant denominations in Poland, [2] and in 2023 there were 130,000 Protestants in the country (0.35% of the population).
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.
Counter-Reformation in Poland. The Counter-reformation in Poland ( Polish: Kontrreformacja w Polsce) was the response ( Counter-Reformation) of Catholic Church in Poland (more precisely, the Kingdom of Poland until 1568, and thereafter the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) to the spread of Protestantism in Poland (the Protestant Reformation ).
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.
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 today.
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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.
POLAND PROTESTANTISM in Poland does not represent a single type, for the life of the Evangelical churches in the country has developed in a number of independent groups. This condition of things is bound up with the restoration of the State, and the history of the various churches in three Empires in pre-war times. The new conditions,
