List of people who converted to Christianity

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The following is a list of notable people who converted to Christianity from a different religion or no religion. This article addresses only past voluntary professions of faith by the individuals listed, and is not intended to address ethnic, cultural, or other considerations. Certain people listed here may be lapsed or former converts, or their current religious identity may be ambiguous, uncertain or disputed. Such cases are noted in their list entries.

Contents

[edit] List of notable converts to Christianity

[edit] From agnosticism or atheism

[edit] From Buddhism

[edit] From Cao Dai

[edit] From Confucianism

Note: It is debated whether Confucianism is a religion and some Confucians who became Christians considered themselves to remain Confucian in philosophy.

[edit] From Hinduism

[edit] From Islam

Albanian monarch, Skanderbeg converted from Christianity to Islam but reverted to Christianity later in life
Albanian monarch, Skanderbeg converted from Christianity to Islam but reverted to Christianity later in life[53]
Italian journalist Magdi Allam converted to Roman Catholicism during the Vatican's 2008 Easter vigil service presided over by Pope Benedict XVI
Italian journalist Magdi Allam converted to Roman Catholicism during the Vatican's 2008 Easter vigil service presided over by Pope Benedict XVI[54]
On St George's Day, 2005 Bosnian film director Emir Kusturica left Islam and was baptised into the Serb Orthodox Church
On St George's Day, 2005 Bosnian film director Emir Kusturica left Islam and was baptised into the Serb Orthodox Church[88]
Argentine president, Carlos Menem converted to Roman Catholicism due to his political aspirations
Argentine president, Carlos Menem converted to Roman Catholicism due to his political aspirations [83]
Al Qaeda terrorist Ramzi Yousef is said to have left Islam and embraced Christianity while in prison
Al Qaeda terrorist Ramzi Yousef is said to have left Islam and embraced Christianity while in prison [111][112]

[edit] From Judaism

Georg Jellinek, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
Georg Jellinek, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
Paul of Tarsus, convert from Judaism to Christianity.
Paul of Tarsus, convert from Judaism to Christianity.

The Jewish Encyclopedia gives some statistics on conversion of Jews to Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, and Orthodox Christianity (which it calls "Greek Catholicism").[144] Some 2,000 European Jews converted to Christianity every year during the 19th century, but in the 1890s the number was running closer to 3,000 per year, — 1,000 in Austria Hungary (Galizian Poland), 1,000 in Russia (Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania), 500 in Germany (Posen), and the remainder in the English world.

[edit] From Manichaeanism

[edit] From Paganism

Statue of baptism of Clovis I, convert from Paganism to Christianity.
Statue of baptism of Clovis I, convert from Paganism to Christianity.
Constantine I, convert from Paganism to Christianity.
Constantine I, convert from Paganism to Christianity.
Jomo Kenyatta, convert from Paganism to Christianity.
Jomo Kenyatta, convert from Paganism to Christianity.
Rollo of Normandy, convert from Paganism to Christianity.
Rollo of Normandy, convert from Paganism to Christianity.

Paganism is a term which, from a Western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or cultic practices or beliefs of any folk religion, and of historical and contemporary polytheistic religions in particular.

While the term has historically been used to denote adherents of any non-Abrahamic faith, for the purposes of this list, only adherents of non-major polytheistic, shamanistic, pantheistic, or animistic religions will be listed in this section.

[edit] From Sikhism

[edit] From Zoroastrianism

[edit] Prior religion undetermined


[edit] See also

[edit] Notes and references

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