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.
Horapollo – leader of the few remaining pagan schools of
Menouthis during Emperor
Zeno's reign (474–491) who converted to Christianity after being tortured.[40]
Paora Te Uita –
Ngāti Whakaue warrior and murderer of
Tārore, converted to Christianity after hearing a reading from Tārore's
Gospel of Luke that he had stolen from her.[60]
^God's Invisible Hand: The Life and Work of Francis Cardinal Arinze, an Interview with Gerard O'Connell, pp. 12–21 (Ignatius Press, 2006)
ISBN978-1-58617-135-3
^Livingston Borobuebi Dambo, Nembe: the Divided Kingdom (Paragraphics, 2006), p. 589
^Enochs, Ross (1996). The Jesuit Mission to the Lakota Sioux: Pastoral Theology and Ministry, 1886–1945. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 26.
ISBN978-1-55612-813-4.
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.
Horapollo – leader of the few remaining pagan schools of
Menouthis during Emperor
Zeno's reign (474–491) who converted to Christianity after being tortured.[40]
Paora Te Uita –
Ngāti Whakaue warrior and murderer of
Tārore, converted to Christianity after hearing a reading from Tārore's
Gospel of Luke that he had stolen from her.[60]
^God's Invisible Hand: The Life and Work of Francis Cardinal Arinze, an Interview with Gerard O'Connell, pp. 12–21 (Ignatius Press, 2006)
ISBN978-1-58617-135-3
^Livingston Borobuebi Dambo, Nembe: the Divided Kingdom (Paragraphics, 2006), p. 589
^Enochs, Ross (1996). The Jesuit Mission to the Lakota Sioux: Pastoral Theology and Ministry, 1886–1945. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 26.
ISBN978-1-55612-813-4.