page_title: Protestantism in Besançon
hierarchical_section_title: Protestantism in Besançon
context_page_description: The Protestantism in Besançon is a schism of the Catholic Church in the French city of Besançon, Franche-Comté. Like the rest of the country, the lutheranism ideas are diffused in the city and his region in the 1520s, and mainly from 1538 when Guillaume Farel preached in an old house of the center. The location of Besançon facilitated the reform, the area is between Montbéliard and the Swiss, two Protestant "strongholds". Civil and religious authorities decided to fight it. All Protestants, called "Huguenots" or "heretics", was oppressed, imprisoned, tortured, and sometimes murdered or sentenced to death. This situation lasted until 1575, however reformed tried to resist few times, until the final battle where they are smashed. During two centuries, to French Revolution, Protestants or supporters are deleted. But at the beginning of the 19th century, they return free to the city, and created their church, the holy spirit temple. In 1999, 2000 believers are in the Besançon's paroisse.
context_section_description: The Protestantism in Besançon is a schism of the Catholic Church in the French city of Besançon, Franche-Comté. Like the rest of the country, the lutheranism ideas are diffused in the city and his region in the 1520s, and mainly from 1538 when Guillaume Farel preached in an old house of the center. The location of Besançon facilitated the reform, the area is between Montbéliard and the Swiss, two Protestant "strongholds". Civil and religious authorities decided to fight it. All Protestants, called "Huguenots" or "heretics", was oppressed, imprisoned, tortured, and sometimes murdered or sentenced to death. This situation lasted until 1575, however reformed tried to resist few times, until the final battle where they are smashed. During two centuries, to French Revolution, Protestants or supporters are deleted. But at the beginning of the 19th century, they return free to the city, and created their church, the holy spirit temple. In 1999, 2000 believers are in the Besançon's paroisse.
caption: The holy spirit temple, in Besançon.
exif: {"Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon DIGITAL IXUS v2", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "180", "Image YResolution": "180", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image DateTime": "2006:07:01 15:50:43", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "196", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "180", "Thumbnail YResolution": "180", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "2036", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4579", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/250", "EXIF FNumber": "71/10", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2006:07:01 15:50:43", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2006:07:01 15:50:43", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "5", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "255/32", "EXIF ApertureValue": "46331/8192", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "97349/32768", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, auto mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "173/32", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1024", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "768", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "Interoperability RelatedImageWidth": "1024", "Interoperability RelatedImageLength": "768", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "1412", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "512000/103", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "153600/31", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard"}