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
- ca. 34 or 200 – Osroene – disputed; both dates claimed
- 179 – Silures; traditional date, now considered questionable[1]
- 301 – San Marino (trad. date)
- 301 – Christianization of Armenia (traditional date; more recently thought to be ca. 313)
- ca. 313 – Caucasian Albania[2]
- ca. 325 – Kingdom of Aksum
- 327 – Caucasian Iberia
- 337 – Roman Empire (baptism of Constantine I)
- 361 – Rome returns to paganism under Julian the Apostate
- 364 – Rome returns to Christianity, specifically the Arian Church
- ca. 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 (Catholic Church)
- ca. 420 – Najran (Catholic Church)
- 448 – Suebi (Catholic Church)[3]
- ca. 450 - Burgundy goes from Catholic to Arian[4]
- 451 – Aksum and Najran are Coptic with Chalcedonian Schism.
- 466 – Suebi go from Catholic to Arian
- 473 – Ghassanids (Catholic Church)
- 480 – Lazica (Catholic Church)
- 491 – Armenia and Caucasian Albania go from Catholic to Apostolic
- 496 – Franks (Catholic Church)
- 506 – Iberia goes from Catholic to Apostolic
- ca. 510 – Ghassanids go from Catholic to Coptic
- 516 – Burgundy returns from Arian to Catholic[5]
- ca. 543 – Makuria (Catholic), Nobatia and Alodia (Coptic Church)
- ca. 550 – Suebi return from Arian to Catholic
- ca. 558 – Christianization of Ireland (Celtic Church)
- ca. 563 – Picts (Celtic Church)[6]
- ca. 568 – Lombards (Arian Church)
- 569 – Garamantes (Catholic Church)
- 589 – Visigoths go from Arian to Catholic
- 591 – Lombards go from Arian to Catholic
- ca. 592 – Lakhmids (Nestorian Church)
- 601 – Kent (Catholic Church)
- 604 – East Anglia and Essex (Catholic)
- 607 – Iberia returns from Apostolic to Catholic
- 616 – Kent and Essex return to paganism
- ca. 620 – Alemanni (Catholic Church)
- 624 – Kent returns from pagan to Catholic
- 627 – Lombards return from Catholic to Arian
- 627 – Northumbria – (Catholic Church); East Anglia returns from Catholic to pagan
- 630 - East Anglia returns from pagan to Catholic
- 635 – Wessex (Catholic Church)
- 653 – Lombards return from Arian to Catholic
- 653 – Essex returns from pagan to Catholic
- 655 – Mercia (Catholic Church)
- 675 – Sussex (Catholic Church)
- 692 – Ireland goes from Celtic to Catholic
- 696 – Bavaria (Catholic)
- 710 – Picts go from Celtic to Catholic
- ca. 710 – Makuria goes from Catholic to Coptic
- 724 – Thuringia
- 734 – Frisians
- 785 – Saxons
- ca. 805 Pannonian Croatia[7]
- 831 – Moravia
- 863 – Christianization of Bulgaria
- ca. 869 – Christianization of the Serbs
- 879 – Dalmatian Croatia[8]
- 911 – Normans
- 960 – Denmark
- 966 – Christianization of Poland
- 973 – Christianization of Hungary
- ca. 989 – Christianization of Kievan Rus'
- 995 – Norway
- 999 – Faroe Islands
- ca. 1000- Christianisation of Iceland
- 1007 – Kerait Khanate – Nestorian Church[9]
- ca. 1008 – Sweden
- 1054 – Byzantine Empire, Kingdom of Georgia, Bulgaria, Serbs, and Rus' are Eastern Orthodox Christian with East-West Schism
- 1124 – Conversion of Pomerania
- ca. 1159 – Finland
- 1227 – Livonia, Cumania
- 1241 – Saaremaa
- 1260 – Curonians
- 1290 – Semigallians
- 1387 – Christianization of Lithuania[10]
- 1413 – Samogitia[11]
Adoptions after 1450
- 1491 - Kingdom of Kongo (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1519 - Tlaxcala (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1521 - Rajahnate of Cebu (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1523 - Sweden goes from Catholic to Lutheran
- 1528 - Schleswig-Holstein goes from Catholic to Lutheran
- 1534 - England goes from Catholic to Anglican
- 1536 - Denmark-Norway and Iceland go from Catholic to Lutheran
- 1553 - England returns from Anglican to Catholic
- 1558 - Kabardia (E. Orthodox Church)
- 1558 - England returns from Catholic to Anglican
- 1560 - Scotland goes from Catholic to Presbyterian
- 1610 - Mi'kmaq (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1624 - Kingdom of Ndongo (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1624 - Ethiopia goes from Coptic to Catholic
- 1631 - Kingdom of Matamba (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1633 - Ethiopia returns from Catholic to Coptic
- 1640 - Piscataway (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1642 - Huron-Wendat Nation (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1654 - Onondaga (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1663-1665 - Kingdom of Loango (briefly Roman Catholic)
- 1675 - Illinois Confederation (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1819 - Kingdom of Tahiti, Kingdom of Hawaii (Congregational Church)
- 1829 - Spokane, Kutenai (Anglican Church)
- 1830 - Samoa (Congregational Church)
- 1838 - Nez Perce (Presbyterian Church)
- 1869 - Merina Kingdom (Reformed Church)
- 1882 - Blackfoot Confederacy (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1880 - Shoshone (LDS Church)
- 1884 - Lakota (Roman Catholic Church)
- 1884 - Catawba (LDS Church)
- 1897 - Shoshone go from LDS to Anglican
- 1907 - Arapaho (Baptist Church)
See also
References
- ^ Silures at HistoryFiles
- ^ The Caucasus & Globalization, Vol 2, 2008, p. 101
- ^ Hubert Jedin, 1980, The Imperial Church from Constantine to the Early Middle Ages p. 226.
- ^ Jodocus Birkhaeuser, 1898, History of the Church, from Its First Establishment p. 148.
- ^ Jodocus Birkhaeuser, 1898, History of the Church, from Its First Establishment p. 148.
- ^ "The Celtic Church in Scotland", The Celtic Magazine Vol 11, 1886 p. 102.
- ^ Alexandru Magdearu, The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins, p. 117.
- ^ Alexandru Magdearu, The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins, p. 117.
- ^ İsenbike Togan , 1999, Flexibility and Limitation in Steppe Formations: The Kerait Khanate p. 60.
- ^ Bojtár, Endre (1999). Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic People. CEU Press. p. 140. ISBN 963-9116-42-4.
- ^ Bojtár, Endre (1999). Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic People. CEU Press. p. 140. ISBN 963-9116-42-4.