Timeline of official adoptions of Christianity

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. 319 - Kartli[3][4][5]
  • 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)[6]
  • ca. 450 - Burgundy goes from Catholic to Arian[7]
  • 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[8]
  • 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)[9]
  • 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[10]
  • 831 – Moravia
  • 864 – Christianization of Bulgaria
  • ca. 869 – Christianization of the Serbs
  • 879 – Duchy of Croatia[11]
  • 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[12]
  • 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 (including mainland Estonia), Cumania
  • 1241 – Saaremaa
  • 1260 – Curonians
  • 1290 – Semigallians
  • 1387 – Christianization of Lithuania[13]
  • 1413 – Samogitia[14]

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
  1. Silures at HistoryFiles
  2. The Caucasus & Globalization, Vol 2, 2008, p. 101
  3. Toumanoff, Cyril, "Iberia between Chosroid and Bagratid Rule", in Studies in Christian Caucasian History, Georgetown, 1963, pp. 374-377. Accessible online at "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2012-06-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Rapp, Stephen H., Jr (2007). "7 - Georgian Christianity". The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity. John Wiley & Sons. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-4443-3361-9. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  5. "The Development of Christianity in Georgia". www.atour.com. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  6. Hubert Jedin, 1980, The Imperial Church from Constantine to the Early Middle Ages p. 226.
  7. Jodocus Birkhaeuser, 1898, History of the Church, from Its First Establishment p. 148.
  8. Jodocus Birkhaeuser, 1898, History of the Church, from Its First Establishment p. 148.
  9. "The Celtic Church in Scotland", The Celtic Magazine Vol 11, 1886 p. 102.
  10. Alexandru Magdearu, The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins, p. 117.
  11. Alexandru Magdearu, The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins, p. 117.
  12. İsenbike Togan , 1999, Flexibility and Limitation in Steppe Formations: The Kerait Khanate p. 60.
  13. Bojtár, Endre (1999). Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic People. CEU Press. p. 140. ISBN 963-9116-42-4.
  14. Bojtár, Endre (1999). Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic People. CEU Press. p. 140. ISBN 963-9116-42-4.
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