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*Current estimates of the primarily Evangelical Protestant population of Guatemala are around 40 percent, making it the most Protestant country in Latin America. Most of these Protestants are Pentecostals. The first Protestant missionary, Frederick Crowe, arrived in Guatemala in 1843, but Conservative President Rafael Carrera expelled him in 1845. Protestant missionaries re-entered the country in 1882. These Northern Presbyterian missionaries opened the first permanent Protestant church in the country in Guatemala City. Protestants remained a small portion of the population until the late-twentieth century, when various Protestant groups experienced a demographic boom that coincided with the increasing violence of the Guatemalan Civil War. | *Current estimates of the primarily Evangelical Protestant population of Guatemala are around 40 percent, making it the most Protestant country in Latin America. Most of these Protestants are Pentecostals. The first Protestant missionary, Frederick Crowe, arrived in Guatemala in 1843, but Conservative President Rafael Carrera expelled him in 1845. Protestant missionaries re-entered the country in 1882. These Northern Presbyterian missionaries opened the first permanent Protestant church in the country in Guatemala City. Protestants remained a small portion of the population until the late-twentieth century, when various Protestant groups experienced a demographic boom that coincided with the increasing violence of the Guatemalan Civil War. | ||
*According to a Guatemalan Orthodox monastery, Orthodox Christianity arrived in Guatemala at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century with immigrants from Lebanon, Russia, and Greece. In 2010, a religious group which had begun as a Catholic movement was received into the Eastern Orthodox Church and placed under the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Mexico. | *According to a Guatemalan Orthodox monastery, Orthodox Christianity arrived in Guatemala at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century with immigrants from Lebanon, Russia, and Greece. In 2010, a religious group which had begun as a Catholic movement was received into the Eastern Orthodox Church and placed under the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Mexico. | ||
*The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claims over 255,000 members in 421 congregations in Guatemala. The first member of the LDS Church in Guatemala was baptized in 1948. | *The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claims over 255,000 members in 421 congregations in Guatemala. The first member of the LDS Church in Guatemala was baptized in 1948. <ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Religion in Guatemala", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Guatemala. </ref><br> | ||
<ref> Wikipedia contributors, "Religion in Guatemala", in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Guatemala. </ref><br> | |||
==Writing for Records== | ==Writing for Records== | ||
<span style="color:darkviolet"> You will probably need to write to or email the national archives, the diocese, or local parish priests to find records. See the [[Spanish Letter Writing Guide|'''Spanish Letter Writing Guide''']] for help with composing letters.</span><br> | <span style="color:darkviolet"> You will probably need to write to or email the national archives, the diocese, or local parish priests to find records. See the [[Spanish Letter Writing Guide|'''Spanish Letter Writing Guide''']] for help with composing letters.</span><br> | ||