Christianity in France
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Date: 2022-01-07

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#Christianity_in_France
Catholic and Lutheran simultaneum （mixed church） in Hunawihr, Haut-Rhin.
Christianity in France is the largest religion in the country.
France is home to The Taizé Community, an ecumenical Christian monastic fraternity in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy.
With a focus on youth, it has become one of the world's most important sites of Christian pilgrimage with over 100,000 young people from around the world converging each year for prayer, Bible study, sharing, and communal work.
According to a survey held by Institut français d'opinion publique （Ifop） for the Institut Montaigne think-tank, 51.
1% of the total population of France was Christian in 2016.
The following year, a survey by Ipsos focused on Protestants and based on 31,155 interviews found that 57.
5% of the total population of France declared to be Catholic and 3.
1% declared to be Protestant.
In 2016, Ipsos Global Trends, a multi-nation survey held by Ipsos and based on approximately 1,000 interviews, found that Christianity is the religion of 45% of the working-age,
internet connected population of France; 42% stated they were Catholic, 2% stated that they were Protestants, and 1% declared to belong to any Orthodox church.
In 2015 the Eurobarometer, a survey funded by the European Union, found that Christianity was the religion of 54.
3% of the French, with Catholicism being the main denomination with 47.
8%.
Saint Éliphe Church in Rampillon, Seine-et-Marne.
Early Christianity was already present among the Gauls by the 2nd century; Irenaeus, bishop of Lugdunum （Lyon）, detailed the deaths of ninety-year-old bishop Pothinus and other martyrs during the persecution in Lyon which took place in 177.
The Gaulish church was soon established in communion with the bishop of Rome.
In 380, the emperor Theodosius I issued the Edict of Thessalonica, which made Christianity, specifically Nicene Chri...