Protestantism in Chile explained
Research in 2018 suggested that Protestants represent 11-13% of the population of Chile.[1] [2] Figures in 2022 note that Protestants represented 2.5% of Chilean people in 2022.[3]
Protestants first arrived in Chile in 1812, when missionaries from the British and Foreign Bible Society travelled the country on foot.[4]
In 1848, the first Anglican Church was established in Valparaíso. This was three years after the arrival of the American Congregationalist (later, Presbyterian) missionary David Trumbull.[5] Lutheran German immigrants arrived at the same time. Later members of the Anglican, Presbyterian, Seventh-day Adventists, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other Protestant Churches also came to Chile.
The first Seventh-Day Adventist missionaries first arrived in 1895.[6] There are estimated to be 126,814 Adventists in Chile.
Changes in the Constitution in 1925 led to numbers of citizens falling away from the Catholic Church and becoming Protestants.[7]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Encuesta - 2015 . Plaza Publica Cadem . es . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170207182725/http://plazapublica.cl/wp-content/uploads/658799.pdf . 2017-02-07 .
- Latinobarometro enero,2018.
- https://www.thearda.com/world-religion/national-profiles?u=47c ARDA website, Retrieved 2023-07-14| Association of Religion Data Archieves website
- https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chile-catholic-church Encyclopedia.com website
- Web site: The David and Jane Wales Trumbull Manuscript Collection, Douglas F. Denné . 2010-02-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120227104325/http://libweb.ptsem.edu/collections/ead/trumbull_david.html . 2012-02-27 . dead .
- Web site: Adventist Atlas . 2008-02-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130923061811/http://adventistatlas.org/ViewCountry.asp?CtryCode=cl . 2013-09-23 . dead .
- https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chile-catholic-church Encyclopedia.com website
