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A friendship with a Catholic priest later helped lead to Hank and his wife's conversion in 1959. He was known to frequently read Thomas à Kempis' 15th-century book The Imitation of Christ, which he kept in his locker. [1] [2] Greg Abbott: 48th Governor of Texas [3] Creighton Abrams: U.S. Army General, converted while commanding US forces in ...
Johann Peter Spaeth – raised Roman Catholic, later converted to Lutheranism, and became a Lutheran theologian, he later left Christianity entirely and embraced Judaism. [citation needed] Ola Tjørhom – Norwegian theologian, converted to Catholicism. [25] Sigrid Undset – convert to Catholicism. [7] Wilhelm Volk – convert to Catholicism. [26]
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Quakerism (8 P) Pages in category "Converts to Roman Catholicism from Protestantism" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
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It affirmed Catholicism as the state religion but granted considerable toleration to Protestants, as well as political and military privileges. The latter would be lost at the Peace of Alès of 1629, but the religious toleration lasted until the reign of Louis XIV , who resumed persecution of Protestants and finally abolished their right to ...
Former Catholics or ex-Catholics are people who used to be Catholic for some time, but no longer identify as such. This includes both individuals who were at least nominally raised in the Roman Catholic faith, and individuals who converted to it in later life, both of whom later rejected and left it, or converted to other faiths (including the related non-Roman Catholic faiths).
The first Catholic church was built in Beijing in 1650. [13] The emperor granted freedom of religion to Catholics. Ricci had modified the Catholic faith to Chinese thinking, permitting among other things the veneration of the dead. The Vatican disagreed and forbade any adaptation in the so-called Chinese Rites controversy in 1692 and 1742.
By 1600, it had declined to 7–8%, [citation needed] and was reduced further late in the century after the return of persecution under Louis XIV, who instituted the dragonnades to forcibly convert Protestants, and then finally revoked all Protestant rights in his Edict of Fontainebleau of 1685. In 1686, the Protestant population sat at 1% of ...