Sentence examples for convert to protestantism from inspiring English sources

"He was the great patriarch of our family, a Coptic priest who travelled in Europe, became a convert to Protestantism, and founded the first Protestant — Lutheran — church in this area, and a school in Adwa.

His parents were non-orthodox Jews; Husserl himself and his wife would later convert to Protestantism.

That's like Gerry Adams converting to protestantism.

(Schoenberg was born into a Jewish family but converted to Protestantism in 1898).

Roman Catholicism predominates, though there were many converts to Protestantism after 1528.

He ended up converting to Protestantism, getting married (and divorced) and becoming a pastor (he left the ministry in the mid-1990's).

His forebears were German and Dutch rabbis, his father a social and religious liberal who converted to Protestantism to enhance his legal career.

He converted to Protestantism in 1562 and set out on travels to French and German universities and to Italy to study its antiquities.

In his efforts to feel more German he converted to Protestantism, started a body-building programme and developed an enthusiasm for medieval German art.

Brace presented his organization as nondenominational, but he was strongly anti-Catholic and had few misgivings when many Catholic children he had sent away converted to Protestantism.

After being commissioned to read and refute works by Protestant Reformers, and after meeting the Spanish religious writer Juan de Valdés in Naples in 1536, Ochino was converted to Protestantism.