List of converts to Christianity from Paganism

This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from pagan religions. 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.

British Isles/Celtic/Germanic (excluding Norse) paganism

Norse paganism

Graeco-Roman Paganism

Egyptian paganism

Mideastern and Arabian paganism

African traditional religions

North American or Inuit

New Zealand and Pacific Islands traditional religions

European paganism (generic)

Eastern European/ Slavic paganism

Finnic paganism

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