Estimates of the proportion of Catholics in 2020 range between 47% and 88% of France's population, with the higher figure including lapsed Catholics and " ... History · Catholicism under the... · Organisation · Statistics

Louis XIV and the rule of Gallicanism · Louis XIV encouraged Catholic missions through the creation of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. · Louis XIV of France.

About three-fifths of the French people belong to the Roman Catholic Church. Only a minority, however, regularly participate in religious worship; ...

11 янв. 2024 г. · My Favorite Story: Catholicism in France Is Shrinking and More Traditional. France is considered the eldest daughter of the Church.

3 апр. 2024 г. · Around 7,000 adults officially became Catholics this past Easter in France, the latest surge in a surprising 10-year trend of more and more ...

26 июн. 2023 г. · In a few decades' time, Catholicism could be in the minority, overtaken by Islam, evangelical Protestantism and, above all, by people with no religion at all.

In 1789, Catholicism was the official religion of France – five years later worship was suppressed. The French Revolution posed problems for religion, but ...

3 апр. 2024 г. · Catholicism has been under attack in France this century by Islamist extremists and also by secular (laïcité) radicals, as I described in these ...

4 апр. 2024 г. · Over 12,000 young people and adults were baptised by the Catholic Church in France on the Easter weekend - an increase of 31 percent compared to ...