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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.

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Adoptions of Christianity to AD 1450

  • ca. 34 or 200 – Osroene – disputed; both dates claimed
  • 179 – Silures; traditional date, now considered questionable
  • 301 – San Marino (trad. date)
  • 301 – Christianization of Armenia (traditional date; more recently thought to be ca. 313)
  • ca. 313 – Caucasian Albania
  • 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)
  • ca. 450 - Burgundy goes from Catholic to Arian
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 831 – Moravia
  • 863 – Christianization of Bulgaria
  • ca. 869 – Christianization of the Serbs
  • 879 – Dalmatian Croatia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1413 – Samogitia

    • 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)

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