What religion are/were your ancestors?

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Mom and her side of the family: Catholic and most of them still practicing
Dad and his side: Methodist and few still practicing
Charlemagne: Catholic (there was talk of sainthood but it never happened)
 
Hmmm… lets see if I remember this correctly.

Me|Raised Presbyterian converted to Catholic
Dad|Presbyterian
Paternal Grand Father|Presbyterian
Paternal Grand Mother|Wesleyan converted to Presbyterian
Mom|Lutheran (LCMS) converted to Presbyterian
Maternal Grand Father|Lutheran (LCMS)
Maternal Grand Mother|“unchurched” converted to Lutheran (LCMS)

My dad’s family is mainly Presbyterian for at least 5 or 6 generations back that I know of. Similar with my mom’s family being predominantly Lutheran. Can’t say they were always Missouri Synod since my Great-Great Grandparents were all Lutherans in southern Germany so doubt it was LCMS :).
 
The vast majority of my ancestors are Roman Catholic. All of my family (with the exception of one however many greats grandfather who came from Germany) came from France and ended up in Louisiana – we’re cajuns. On my dad’s side I’ve got marriage/baptism records (copies) all the way back to the 1860s from St. Mary Magdalen Catholic church in Abbeville, Louisiana.
 
Catholic - and German - both sides as far back as I know…

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Me- Former Fundamentalist now Catholic
Mom- Baptized Catholic, but wasn’t raised in the Church (due to her Mother’s death) and became a Fundamentalist as an adult
Dad- Raised non-religious, became New Age as an adult , and is now kind of a free form thing
Mom’s side:
Grandma- Catholic
Grandpa- non-practicing Catholic also a Free Mason
Great Granparents- all Catholic
Dad’s side:
Grandma- raised Catholic, non-practicing as an adult
Grandpa- non-religious
Great Grandparents- both Catholic on Grandma’s side, neither religious on Granpa’s side

I am now the only practicing Catholic in the family. Family isn’t too happy about it.
 
Metropolis said:
Me- Former Fundamentalist now Catholic
Mom- Baptized Catholic, but wasn’t raised in the Church (due to her Mother’s death) and became a Fundamentalist as an adult
Dad- Raised non-religious, became New Age as an adult , and is now kind of a free form thing
Mom’s side:
Grandma- Catholic
Grandpa- non-practicing Catholic also a Free Mason
Great Granparents- all Catholic
Dad’s side:
Grandma- raised Catholic, non-practicing as an adult
Grandpa- non-religious
Great Grandparents- both Catholic on Grandma’s side, neither religious on Granpa’s side

I am now the only practicing Catholic in the family. Family isn’t too happy about it.
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I’m the only practicing Catholic in my family too, but they are indifferent/mostly supportive. We aren’t a very close family (besides my parents) so I don’t see them too often anyway.
 
Glad everyone is enjoying the thread! Thanks to all who’ve posted so far!
 
This is half easy
Dad’s Family = All Catholic
Wonder what happened there though. His mother had one child then divorced because the husband never worked, so we were told. She married second and had five more kids, and he is not buried in the Catholic Cemetery with her. Don’t know if that’s because he wasn’t Catholic, or he was, but she didn’t get the proper annulment of the first. Never heard the word used regarding this history. Given the times, and the religion, pretty brave of her to divorce at all.

Mom’s family=I’ve no idea beyond knowing that there’s not one Catholic in the bunch.
UNTIL!!! My atheist brother converted early last year!!!
 
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Elisabeth51:
GGGGGGrandparents: Mom’s side: Jewish, Anglican, French Catholic
Dad’s side: Presbyterian…somewhere back there has to be Catholic, being Scottish before moving to the Colonies…
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Is there a genealogist in the house??!!! 😃

That’s quite a list…
 
My entire family, as far back as I can tell, have been Catholic. My paternal great-grandparents, my paternal grandparents, my maternal grandmother, my parents, my first two kids and I were all baptized in the same parish.

My dad was an altar server, for the same priest, from the age of 12 until he married at age 39. He became an EMHC in his 60s and started serving for daily Mass once he retired. He stopped his various ministries in his late 70s when it became harder for him to go up the steps to the sanctuary. He was a Knight of Columbus in his early years but the local Council disbanded before I was born. He rejoined when a Council was re-established after I’d moved away from the village.

Mom was devout but wasn’t a joiner - her devoutness expressed itself in how she raised us, taught us our prayers, made sure we all got to Mass and did all we needed to. She even helped me teach our oldest her prayers when we were posted close to home.
 
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My Grandparents on my Mom’s side were Roman Catholic.

My Grandparents on my Dad’s side were Polish National Catholic.

My Mom was Roman Catholic.

My Dad was Polish National Catholic.

All of them were very religious people. I guess it rubbed off on me.
 
All of my ancestors were Catholic, I assume as far back as the days of St Patrick (I am of Irish descent). 😃
 
I was baptized a few weeks after I was born and have been fortunate to have been raised in the Church.
My brothers: One is still a young child so I’m not sure how he’ll turn out. My older brother unfortunately bears a strong resemblance to my father in his youth, so he mostly seems to go to church to please my parents. I get the feeling he likes the camaraderie and tradition of church and the Catholic religion more than he likes following its rules–particularly those related to women. I have seen condoms in his room, and once in a conversation about confession he asked, “They still do that nowadays?”. Sigh…I just hope he gets better as he gets older. Hopefully I can keep him in shape.

My Dad: Raised in the Church, fell away during his young adulthood, reinvigorated his faith after marrying my mother.

Mother: Wasn’t raised religiously, though she was baptized. Occasionaly, the Baptists in her town would come by and pick her up for Church on Sundays.

Paternal Grandparents: Both Catholics. My grandmother’s family was almost certainly Catholic for a long time (they are pretty pure German Catholic). My grandfather was German-Irish, so I’m going to guess his family was Catholic somewhere in there. My grandmother died in 1999, when I was still quite young, so I never knew her, but she was quite devout from what I gather, and also quite involved in the Women’s Club. She made it her task to insure my dad went to church, though I gather he resisted to the best of his ability, and lo’, my dad has turned out all right. My grandfather used to go to daily mass quite often, but since he fell over at the navy store a few years his ability to walk has really degraded so he only goes to Sunday mass. He used to lector and help with the collection but that has also been prelcuded due to his aging knees.

Maternal Grandparents: This side is a bit of a mess. My grandfather was probably raised protestant (perhaps Baptist, he occasionally goes to baptist churches nowadays and seem partial to Baptist theology), but after he joined the Air Force he lost his faith. When I used to sleepover at my grandparents’ house to go fishing and stuff he would take us to church (usually Baptist churches) out of respect for my parents, but I think Church is sort of a social thing for him now.

My grandmother (who isn’t really my blood) is Filipino and Catholic. I think she may have wanted to raise my mom and her siblings Catholic but she couldn’t because she couldn’t drive and suspect didn’t want to convince my grandfather to take her to Church. So that’s why my mom wasn’t really raised religiously. But after she and my grandfather were retired she got her license and she went to the nearest Catholic church on Sundays. (She died in 2005)
 
anp1215 said:
I don’t mean distant ancestors, but if you know, you can add that too!

I mean parents, grandparents, great-grandparents. I thought it would be interesting to see our heritage/roots laid out in regards to religion. Some of us may know far back, and others might not know at all.

Just for fun :).

Me: Roman Catholic convert (raised in a variety of Christian denominations)

Mom: Unbaptized non-denominational Christian (raised somewhat Church of the Nazarene)

Dad: Roman Catholic (currently non-practicing)

Maternal grandmother: Raised Baptist (?), Church of the Nazarene in later years

Maternal grandfather: Raised Baptist, converted to Oneness Pentecostalism in later years

Paternal grandmother: Roman Catholic (currently non-practicing)

Paternal grandfather: Methodist (non-practicing)

Maternal great-grandmother (mom’s dad’s mom): Baptist

I don’t know any further back than that!

Hopefully this thread is in a good place, wasn’t sure if it should go here or back fence.
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Me: Born Catholic then at ten my family became Russian Orthodox then I became Catholic again

Mom: Born Catholic converted to Russain orthodox

Dad: Born Catholic converted to Russain Orthodox and became a priest

My grandfather and grandmother (moms side) (German) all devout Catholics most attend sspx masses

My My grandfather and grandmother ( dads side) (English) all devout Catholics

all of my family from what we have learned have always been Catholic but my grandfather has traced his family all the way back to 1165 but his many great grand father was we are not sure we think he was a pagan
 
Hi ANP, what a wonderful interesting thread and read everyone’s most interesting religious history - I love it!

I have friends who are from Lutheran backgrounds and practicing (just discovered a few nights ago from one of my girlfriends that she is a practicing Lutheran and known her for 15 years!
We had never gotten around to discussing religions.

All of my Father’s side are Catholics, all of my Mother’s side were Church of England/Anglican.

Mum converted to Catholicism before she married Dad and attended Mass with our family each Sunday growing up.

Nanna (Dad’s Mother) had a large beautiful old Bible that we all used to read every now and then growing up with all of her 8 children’s names (including Dad’s) and dates of births written inside the front cover which was beautiful. My grandparents (my Grandfather I never met although Dad has told me beautiful stories about him), were practicing Catholics who passed down their devotedness to Dad continuing to be a practicing Catholic throughout his entire life (and Dad has endured many hardships that God got him through to 81 years of age last week).

My Catholicism (and my Sisters) has stayed and been reminded about via Dad when we visit ie “Do you still attend Mass? Have you been to Confession recently? During your visit, would you like to attend with me tomorrow”? Off I went to Confession with Dad, after a few years of not having gone (quite a few years) as I was asking God and Jesus’ forgiveness during prayers after each major sin and nowhere near good enough (knew in my Heart from guilt),

Back to the point of religious backgrounds! Uncle Stan wrote to the Pope from Australia during the 1950’s for permission to marry a Lutheran/Protestant/Anglican (he told me growing up a few times) in which he was required to wait the lengthy months for a reply. He waited and received a reply from the Pope giving permission for Aunty Jean to marry him. How beautifully loving and patient to wait for permission to marry the love of your life, from across the other side of the World, to please God and Jesus!

I look forward to reading everyone else’s religious background stories.

Thank you again ANP!
 
HolyRosaryChild said:
Hi ANP, what a wonderful interesting thread and read everyone’s most interesting religious history - I love it!

I have friends who are from Lutheran backgrounds and practicing (just discovered a few nights ago from one of my girlfriends that she is a practicing Lutheran and known her for 15 years!
We had never gotten around to discussing religions.

All of my Father’s side are Catholics, all of my Mother’s side were Church of England/Anglican.

Mum converted to Catholicism before she married Dad and attended Mass with our family each Sunday growing up.

Nanna (Dad’s Mother) had a large beautiful old Bible that we all used to read every now and then growing up with all of her 8 children’s names (including Dad’s) and dates of births written inside the front cover which was beautiful. My grandparents (my Grandfather I never met although Dad has told me beautiful stories about him), were practicing Catholics who passed down their devotedness to Dad continuing to be a practicing Catholic throughout his entire life (and Dad has endured many hardships that God got him through to 81 years of age last week).

My Catholicism (and my Sisters) has stayed and been reminded about via Dad when we visit ie “Do you still attend Mass? Have you been to Confession recently? During your visit, would you like to attend with me tomorrow”? Off I went to Confession with Dad, after a few years of not having gone (quite a few years) as I was asking God and Jesus’ forgiveness during prayers after each major sin and nowhere near good enough (knew in my Heart from guilt),

Back to the point of religious backgrounds! Uncle Stan wrote to the Pope from Australia during the 1950’s for permission to marry a Lutheran/Protestant/Anglican (he told me growing up a few times) in which he was required to wait the lengthy months for a reply. He waited and received a reply from the Pope giving permission for Aunty Jean to marry him. How beautifully loving and patient to wait for permission to marry the love of your life, from across the other side of the World, to please God and Jesus!

I look forward to reading everyone else’s religious background stories.

Thank you again ANP!
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You are very welcome!
 
My father’s family is from Ireland, so Catholic all the way.

My mother’s father was an American Protestant, but converted to Catholicism in the trenches during WWI. My mother’s mother was from England. Her father was Church of England, her mother was also from England but of Italian parentage. She rebelled and left the Catholic Church. Her daughter, my grandmother, also rebelled by converting TO the Catholic Church when she married my grandfather 🙂 My ertswhile rebel great-grandmother was so schocked :eek: at her daughter’s conversion that the two of them never spoke again. According to family lore, my grandmother shook the dust of England from her feet when she left for North America to join my grandfather.

Guess I come from a long line of rebellious dramatic females.
 
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