Obraz reformacji szlacheckiej w Wielkopolsce trzydzieści lat po konfederacji warszawskiej w świetle źródła kościelnego
The Image of the Noble Reformation in Wielkopolska Thirty Years After the Warsaw Confederation in the Light of a Church Source

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an attempt to answer the question of how the reformed denominations functioned in Greater Poland several decades after 1573. The source basis of the article is the visitation of the Archdeaconry of Gniezno, covering the eastern part of Greater Poland, carried out in 1608–1609 by Wincenty de Seve. During the aforementioned visitation, over 70 noblemen belonging to various factions of the Reformed denomination were registered. If the owner of the village where the parish church was located was a Protestant, he was taken over by a congregation. Hence, the Catholic inhabitants of the village participated in services and sacraments in the churches of the neighbouring towns. Often, a Protestant minister operated in the church, but private houses also served religious purposes. There were also places that were local religious and political or social centres of the Reformation. Often, Protestant families were not religiously uniform, and some of their members were Catholics. It is also evident that the Reformation was losing momentum, because Protestants were not active in their activities and conversions to Catholicism became increasingly frequent.

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