Cult of Reconcíliate con Dios Evangelistic Church, in Ampliación Amanecer Neighborhood's Community Center, Temuco.

Research in 2018 suggested that Protestants represent 11-13% of the population of Chile.[1][2] Figures in 2022 note that Protestants represented 2.5% of Chilean people in 2022.[3]

Protestants first arrived in Chile in 1812, when missionaries from the British and Foreign Bible Society travelled the country on foot.[4]

In 1848, the first Anglican Church was established in Valparaíso. This was three years after the arrival of the American Congregationalist (later, Presbyterian) missionary David Trumbull.[5] Lutheran German immigrants arrived at the same time. Later members of the Anglican, Presbyterian, Seventh-day Adventists, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other Protestant Churches also came to Chile.

The first Seventh-Day Adventist missionaries first arrived in 1895.[6] There are estimated to be 126,814 Adventists in Chile.

Changes in the Constitution in 1925 led to numbers of citizens falling away from the Catholic Church and becoming Protestants.[7]

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References

  1. ^ "Encuesta - 2015" (PDF) (in Spanish). Plaza Publica Cadem. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-07.
  2. ^ Latinobarometro enero,2018.
  3. ^ ARDA website, Retrieved 2023-07-14| Association of Religion Data Archieves website
  4. ^ Encyclopedia.com website
  5. ^ "The David and Jane Wales Trumbull Manuscript Collection, Douglas F. Denné". Archived from the original on 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
  6. ^ "Adventist Atlas". Archived from the original on 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
  7. ^ Encyclopedia.com website
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