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  2. Conversions of Jews to Christianity - Wikipedia

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    A list of 32 Jewish families and 18 unmarried Jews who had recently converted was given by David Friedlander to Prussian State Chancellor Hardenberg in 1811. [9] In the eight old Prussian provinces between the years of 1816–43, during the reign of Frederick William III. , 3,984 Jews were baptized, among them the many of richest and most ...

  3. Category : Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism

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    Pages in category "Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 270 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  4. Hebrew Catholics - Wikipedia

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    Hebrew Catholics (Hebrew: עברים קתולים Ivrím Katolím) are a movement of Jews who have converted to Catholicism, and Catholics of non-Jewish origin, who choose to keep Mosaic traditions in light of Catholic doctrine. The phrase was coined by Father Elias Friedman (1987), who was himself a converted Jew.

  5. List of converts to Catholicism - Wikipedia

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    John M. Oesterreicher: Jewish convert who became a monsignor and a leading advocate of Jewish-Catholic reconciliation [290] William E. Orchard: liturgist, pacifist and ecumenicist; before becoming a Catholic priest he was a Protestant minister [291] Johann Friedrich Overbeck: German painter in the Nazarene movement of religious art [292]

  6. Marrano - Wikipedia

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    The term specifically refers to the charge of crypto-Judaism, whereas the term converso was used for the wider population of Jewish converts to Catholicism, whether or not they secretly still practised Jewish rites. Converts from either Judaism or Islam were referred to by the broader term of "New Christians". The term marrano came into later ...

  7. List of converts to Christianity from Judaism - Wikipedia

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    This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from Judaism after the split of Judaism and Christianity. Christianity originated as a movement within Judaism that believed in Jesus as the Messiah. The earliest Christians were Jews or ...

  8. Sephardic Bnei Anusim - Wikipedia

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    Sephardic Bnei Anusim (Hebrew: בני אנוסים ספרדיים, Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈbne anuˈsim sfaraˈdijim], lit."Children [of the] coerced [converted] Spanish [Jews]) is a modern term which is used to define the contemporary Christian descendants of an estimated quarter of a million 15th-century Sephardic Jews who were coerced or forced to convert to Catholicism during the 14th and ...

  9. Converso - Wikipedia

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    A converso (Spanish: [komˈbeɾso]; Portuguese: [kõˈvɛɾsu]; feminine form conversa), "convert" (from Latin conversus 'converted, turned around'), was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendants.