Converted Catholics, what denomination were you in before your conversion?

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Wow, only eight weeks. Didn’t know that was even possible!
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Yes, I had already studied off and on for
10 years and I came from a liturgical church very similar to the Catholic church so RCIA had just ended and I met once a week for 8 weeks with the woman who taught RCIA and then I made my first confession and then was received into the Church soon after.
 
I’m technically a revert, but I identified more with the Episcopal Church before I stopped caring about religion. I was Confirmed as a Catholic in eighth grade, but much of my childhood was spent in the Episcopal Church. I didn’t really care about my catechesis (in either church), so all I really knew about the Bible was “don’t judge”, David killed Goliath, Noah built an ark, and Jesus may or may not have had siblings. Oddly enough, I think it was in my Catholic teaching that I was told Jesus had brothers and sisters 🤷‍♂️

Because I was raised a mixture of Anglican (TEC) and Catholic, Christianity confused me a lot. I didn’t even know that Jesus is God until shortly after I reverted.

I returned to the Catholic Church, at first, because my family still went to a Catholic parish for Christmas and Easter- so, I returned because it was familiar. I remained- and remain- because of what I’ve learned from Catholic Answers. It opened me up to studying Church history, and I’m not sure I would have done so otherwise. Church history convinces me that the Catholic Church was the original Church, and is the true Church.
 
You know sometimes is not easy for convert to find wellcoming parish,but that’s a chalenge from God to see how strong your will is…so keep going ,show them your will…one day you will be awarded
 
I went to an Independent Baptist church for a while when I was exploring. They were strict KJV onlyist who thought the Byzantine manuscript tradition was preserved by God and that other manuscript traditions were corrupted. Some KJV onlyist actually believe the KJV itself was inspired during translation. I guess there are varying levels of belief among them. Lol
 
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Two times went to Protestant gathering felt reallt strange…(though i like some of their views).
In orthodox church feel nothing.
 
I was baptized and raised in The Methodist Church. I basically became Agnostic. I am currently in RCIA.
I came to Catholicism because THE TRINITY led me. 💖
 
Raised Calvary chapel with Pentecostal leanings. Did not go to church for a long time and when I decided to go back it was a reformed lutheran denomination. This got me interested in the reformation. And I realized my denomination was different from the original Lutheran denomination. I could not believe how so many new denominations get started over disagreements on scripture interpretation. So I wanted to find who’s interpretation was right. This led to a question of authority. When I went on studying church history I realized protestant churches have no authority, so I became Catholic.
 
I was “raised” in a non-practicing Jewish family. My decision to enter the Faith came from listening to my girlfriend’s mother share her beliefs with me. I loved what I heard so wanted what she had.

This is the funny part: a friend attended an Assembly of God church, which he invited me to. The pastor made an alter call in which I accepted Jesus, etc.

I figured that once I was baptized all I needed to do was just show up at a Catholic Church and I’d be a Catholic. Wrong! I went through the steps and was Confirmed, and the rest is wonderful history! Best move I ever made (besides getting sober)!
 
Southern Baptist, baptized and ordained. I was raised going to Church three times a week, went to an SBC university and seminary.
 
My mom took me to a ‘Church of Christ’ when I was young. My father wasn’t religious but he was also baptized and became active when I was a little older.

I was atheist/agnostic for awhile because [reasons] and then became a kind of unaffiliated Christian. There were a few things related to human sexuality as well as the doctrine of hell that I didn’t accept (The obvious things that people commonly reject. I had various rationalizations for my beliefs at the time, but now in retrospect I realize I was just stalling and deflecting because I didn’t want to accept them).

Once I started reading Catholic apologetic material it was an easy win. I think it was less than a month after reading the first article that I was preparing for formal RCIA. I didn’t really learn much in it cause I was a self-start & study type, but I enjoyed the meetings and getting acquainted, and the months of waiting provided time to solidify into the Faith.
 
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I was raised Lutheran.

Short answer, I became Catholic because my significant other and I felt it was important to be a united religious front for any future children and I didn’t see any meaningful differences between it and my Lutheran upbringing.
 
I was raised in a pentecostal family but I was agnostic until 19 years old, when I converted to Christ and became a Reformed Protestant.
Two years ago I started to study the Church Fathers and realized that they had nothing in common with that hateful fraud called Calvinism and were in fact members of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church!
I’m now starting RCIA and finally in peace knowing that I found the Church founded by Our Lord.
 
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Raised in a 19th Century fringe Christianity which was born from the 18th Century enlightenment philosophies, denying the existence of most things transcendent of the natural universe, except God the Father and angels, (even the Holy Spirit was electricity). Reading John 6 I came to believe in the Eucharist, but I thought nobody believes that, and I don’t want to start my own church, and who’s going to believe me that the Bread and Wine actually are the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. So instead converted to something which I am still trying to figure out, perhaps a blend of evangelical pentecostal southern baptist, it was hard to tell, and it was a “center” not “church”.

Traversed through Reformed, Lutheran and Orthodox in very fast succession without actually going near them, which left Catholic (something I knew nothing about) however I didn’t think people actually converted to the Catholic Church from protestant denominations and I didn’t want to be the first.

I have come home to the One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, most of my life not knowing I wasn’t.
 
I think it’s funny that a good number of us were or experimented with Lutheranism before we became Catholic! 🤣
 
Baptised Presbyterian as an infant, but didn’t really become Christian by conviction till I was 28. That was still in the Presbyterian Church. Joined the Wesleyan Methodists for a couple of years, and have often been to my wife’s Baptist Church.

My Presbyterian (Methodist trained) pastor predicted I’d become Catholic. The reason was a combination of things - a distinct spiritual push, some disillusionment with the divided nature of the Protestant churches (plus my original pastor was a difficult act to follow as he was so outstanding) and finally an argument with a Protestant pastor became the straw that broke the camel’s back. So I did RCIA and joined.

Have since had my original Presbyterian pastor turn up in a brief vision one night and say “The Catholic Church is closest to the truth”, with a distinct emphasis on the word “Closest”.
 
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I wasn’t raised in any religion. Live in the Bible Belt, most are Baptist. Growing up I remember being told by my mom that sort of thing “wasn’t meant for someone like me.” I still struggle finding the meaning behind that.

I was 20 and honestly severely depressed. I’d never went to church, read the Bible, didn’t even fully understand who Jesus was, but I did occasionally pray to God - despite not knowing what that meant. I had considered ending my life when a dear friend kind of came out of nowhere and invited me to church one night. There was adoration and I sat there, looked at Jesus, and I had no idea who He was or what any of this meant, but I wanted more. I think my heart was converted then. He was all I could think about. I spent many nights after that staying up and reading about/studying the Church and it only took a few months before I was intellectually won over as well.
 
Welcome Home! Yes, Jesus has many brothers and sisters. Spiritually. Thats who we are to Him, all down the centuries. None by flesh and blood before or after Him. I have regarded Jesus as “Brother Jesus” or “Bro J” for short. Just something “siblings” do. 🙂
 
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