Protestant Slavs

[svin]

12. The Croatian nation belongs to western culture and to western civilization.

What is western here? Many consider Chezch Republic not to be part of western civilization.

[Zrinski]

Originally Posted by svin

What is western here? Many consider Chezch Republic not to be part of western civilization.

Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Croats and Slovenes all belong to the western cultural ciricle.

[svin]

Originally Posted by Zrinski

Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Croats and Slovenes all belong to the western cultural ciricle.

Agreed. Also Lusatian Sorbs. Hm, I wonder what is Sorbs predominant religion. According to Wikipedia it's Protestantism. So, they are the only Slavic group who are predominantly Prostestants then.

[Zrinski]

Originally Posted by svin

Agreed. Also Lusatian Sorbs. Hm, I wonder what is Sorbs predominant religion. According to Wikipedia it's Protestantism. So, they are the only Slavic group who are predominantly Prostestants then.

AFAIK they are predominantly Catholic as well.

As for wikipedia I found nothing about Sorbs being predominantly Protestant...only about Protestant Sorbs immigrating to USA.....similar what happened with Czech Protestants.

One should also know that Reformation was quite successful among certain slavic nations....especially Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes and Croats. But not long after that there was Counter-Reforomation so they were brought back to Catholicism.

[svin]

Originally Posted by Zrinski

AFAIK they are predominantly Catholic as well.

As for wikipedia I found nothing about Sorbs being predominantly Protestant...only about Protestant Sorbs immigrating to USA.....similar what happened with Czech Protestants.

Yes, that was I found too. It was not direct statement, but I tried to make my own conclusions. Seems, I was wrong.

One should also know that Reformation was quite successful among certain slavic nations....especially Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes and Croats. But not long after that there was Counter-Reforomation so they were brought back to Catholicism.

I'm not very familiar with this theme, only heard in school about Czech reformer Jan Hus. Any other famous Slavic reformers?

[Zrinski]

Originally Posted by svin

I'm not very familiar with this theme, only heard in school about Czech reformer Jan Hus. Any other famous Slavic reformers?

Jan Hus is probably the most famous one Slavic reformator....mainly due to conflicts between Hussites and Catholics.

I can talk about Croatian reformators for others I don't know much.
Among first and known reformators were Lutherans Grgur Vlahovic and Matija Vlačić Ilirik and also Calvinist Mihael Bučić.

What is interesting that the Zrinski family was the most zealous in supproting reformation in Croatian lands and often protected prostestants and some of the Zrinski's even openly declared as Protestants.

[Seaxiscmann]

Must be hard to find protestant slavs...

[Lisowczyk]

Poland has been the gateway between West and East throughout its history it has never fully belonged to one or the other, there is just simply some people who consider themselves west and some to east it all depends on your state of mind.

[Pirate]

Originally Posted by svin

Any other famous Slavic reformers?

We have Primož Trubar who wrote first Slovenian book and is now depicted on 1 € coin. There are other famous Slovenian reformers like Jurij Dalmatin who translated Bible into Slovenian.

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Originally Posted by Seaxiscmann

Must be hard to find protestant slavs...

I'm 1/4 Protestant.

About 1% of Slovenians are Protestant, mostly in north-eastern Slovenia, there is a Protestant church also in Ljubljana, Slovenian capital.