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.navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Catholic_Church_by_country" title="Template:Catholic Church by country"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Catholic_Church_by_country" title="Template talk:Catholic Church by country"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Catholic_Church_by_country" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Catholic Church by country"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Catholic Church in Europe</b> is part of the worldwide <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Full_communion" title="Full communion">full communion</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Holy_See" title="Holy See">Holy See</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, including represented <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Catholic">Eastern Catholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Catholic_missions" title="Catholic missions">missions</a>. Demographically, Catholics are the largest religious group in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Percent_of_Catholics_in_Europe_by_Country%E2%80%93Pew_Research_2011_(no_legend).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Percent_of_Catholics_in_Europe_by_Country%E2%80%93Pew_Research_2011_%28no_legend%29.svg/220px-Percent_of_Catholics_in_Europe_by_Country%E2%80%93Pew_Research_2011_%28no_legend%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Percent_of_Catholics_in_Europe_by_Country%E2%80%93Pew_Research_2011_%28no_legend%29.svg/330px-Percent_of_Catholics_in_Europe_by_Country%E2%80%93Pew_Research_2011_%28no_legend%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Percent_of_Catholics_in_Europe_by_Country%E2%80%93Pew_Research_2011_%28no_legend%29.svg/440px-Percent_of_Catholics_in_Europe_by_Country%E2%80%93Pew_Research_2011_%28no_legend%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="263" /></a><figcaption>Adherence to Catholicism in Europe (2010)</figcaption></figure> <p>About 35%<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the population of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> today is Catholic, but only about a quarter of all Catholics worldwide reside in Europe. This is due in part to the movement and immigration at various times of largely Catholic European ethnic groups (such as the <a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian people">Italians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polish_people" title="Polish people">Poles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_people" title="Portuguese people">Portuguese</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Spanish_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish people">Spaniards</a>) to continents such as the <a href="/wiki/Americas" title="Americas">Americas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>. Furthermore, Catholicism has been spread outside Europe through both historical Catholic missionary activity, especially in <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a>, and the past colonization and conversion of native people by Catholic European countries, specifically the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Empire" title="Portuguese Empire">Portuguese</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_colonial_empire" title="French colonial empire">French</a> and <a href="/wiki/Belgian_colonial_empire" title="Belgian colonial empire">Belgian colonial empire</a>, in regions such as South America, <a href="/wiki/The_Caribbean" class="mw-redirect" title="The Caribbean">the Caribbean</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_Africa" title="Central Africa">Central Africa</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Africa" title="West Africa">West Africa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Zenit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zenit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Holy_See_and_the_European_episcopal_conferences">The Holy See and the European episcopal conferences</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Holy See and the European episcopal conferences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Holy_See–European_Union_relations"><span id="Holy_See.E2.80.93European_Union_relations"></span>Holy See–European Union relations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Holy See–European Union relations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Holy_See%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Holy See–European Union relations">Holy See–European Union relations</a></div> <p>As the Vatican State is a <a href="/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy">theocracy</a>, it cannot become a member of the European Union. However, traditionally there are very strong ties of the Holy See with the only neighboring country of the <a href="/wiki/Vatican_City" title="Vatican City">Vatican City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> and also with the European Union. Since 1970 the European Union accredits an official representative from the Holy See (an Apostolic <a href="/wiki/Nuncio" title="Nuncio">Nuncio</a>) to the EU. Even though the Vatican City is not an official member of the European Union, it has adopted the <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">Euro</a> as its currency and has open borders with the <a href="/wiki/Schengen_Area" title="Schengen Area">Schengen Area</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Statements_of_the_Holy_See_and_other_dignitaries_of_the_Catholic_Church_on_the_European_integration">Statements of the Holy See and other dignitaries of the Catholic Church on the European integration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Statements of the Holy See and other dignitaries of the Catholic Church on the European integration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2016 Pope Francis was awarded with the <a href="/wiki/Charlemagne_Prize" title="Charlemagne Prize">Charlemagne prize</a>. During his speech of thanks Pope Francis criticized a "crisis of solidarity"<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in Europe and condemned "national self-interest, renationalization and particularism".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2018 Cardinal <a href="/wiki/Reinhard_Marx" title="Reinhard Marx">Reinhard Marx</a>, archbishop of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Munich_and_Freising" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising">Munich and Freising</a> and former president of <a href="/wiki/COMECE" class="mw-redirect" title="COMECE">COMECE</a>, called for a deeper European integration and condemned the harmful consequences of nationalism.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Council_of_the_Bishops'_Conferences_of_Europe_(CCEE)"><span id="The_Council_of_the_Bishops.27_Conferences_of_Europe_.28CCEE.29"></span>The Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Council_of_the_Bishops%27_Conferences_of_Europe" title="Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe">Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe</a></div> <p>The Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae</i>) (CCEE) is a conference of the presidents of the 33 <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_conference" title="Episcopal conference">episcopal conferences</a> of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Luxembourg" class="mw-redirect" title="Archbishop of Luxembourg">Archbishop of Luxembourg</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Monaco" class="mw-redirect" title="Archbishop of Monaco">Archbishop of Monaco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maronite_Catholic_Archeparch_of_Cyprus" class="mw-redirect" title="Maronite Catholic Archeparch of Cyprus">Maronite Catholic Archeparch of Cyprus</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Bishop_of_Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Bishop of Chişinău">Roman Catholic Bishop of Chişinău</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ruthenian_Catholic_Eparch_of_Mukacheve" class="mw-redirect" title="Ruthenian Catholic Eparch of Mukacheve">Ruthenian Catholic Eparch of Mukacheve</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Administrator_of_Estonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic Administrator of Estonia">Apostolic Administrator of Estonia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CCEEpresentation_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CCEEpresentation-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <abbr title="Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe">CCEE</abbr> Secretariat is located in <a href="/wiki/St._Gallen" title="St. Gallen">St. Gallen</a>, Switzerland. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Commission_of_the_Bishops'_Conferences_of_the_European_Community_(COMECE)"><span id="The_Commission_of_the_Bishops.27_Conferences_of_the_European_Community_.28COMECE.29"></span>The Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Commission_of_the_Bishops%27_Conferences_of_the_European_Community" class="mw-redirect" title="Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community">Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community</a></div> <p>The Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">Commissio Episcopatuum Communitatis Europaeae</i>; COMECE) is the association of <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_conference" title="Episcopal conference">episcopal conferences</a> in <a href="/wiki/Member_states_of_the_European_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Member states of the European Union">member states of the European Union</a> (EU) which officially represents those episcopal conferences at EU institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-EUTransparency2016_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EUTransparency2016-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Turner2013_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Turner2013-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <abbr title="Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community">COMECE</abbr> bishops are delegated by Catholic episcopal conferences in EU member states and has a permanent <a href="/wiki/Secretariat_(administrative_office)" title="Secretariat (administrative office)">Secretariat</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a>, Belgium.<sup id="cite_ref-EUTransparency2016_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EUTransparency2016-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-COMECEwhoweare_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-COMECEwhoweare-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was established in 1980 and replaced the European Catholic Pastoral Information Service (SIPECA, 1976–1980). Discussions during the 1970s about creating an episcopal conferences' liaison organization to the <a href="/wiki/European_Community" class="mw-redirect" title="European Community">European Community</a> led to the decision, on the eve of the <a href="/wiki/1979_European_Parliament_election" title="1979 European Parliament election">1979 European Parliament election</a>, to establish <abbr title="Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community">COMECE</abbr>.<sup id="cite_ref-COMECEhistory_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-COMECEhistory-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Important_European_Catholic_lay_organizations">Important European Catholic lay organizations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Important European Catholic lay organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_Catholic_youth_organizations">European Catholic youth organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: European Catholic youth organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Fimcap" title="Fimcap">Fimcap</a></b> <b>Europe</b> (International Federation of Catholic Parochial Youth Movements): Fimcap is an <a href="/wiki/Umbrella_organization" title="Umbrella organization">umbrella organization</a> for <a href="/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic">catholic</a> youth organizations, especially for youth organizations which are based at parish level. (See also: <a href="/wiki/Fimcap" title="Fimcap">Fimcap Europe</a>) </p><p><b><a href="/wiki/MIJARC_Europe" title="MIJARC Europe">MIJARC Europe</a></b> (International Movement of Catholic Agricultural and Rural Youth): MIJARC Europe is a platform representing the catholic, agricultural and rural youth movements in Europe. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_important_Catholic_lay_organizations">Other important Catholic lay organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Other important Catholic lay organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b><a href="/wiki/CIDSE" title="CIDSE">CIDSE</a></b> (International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity)<b>:</b> CIDSE is an umbrella organization for Catholic development agencies from Europe and North America. </p><p><b><a href="/wiki/World_Movement_of_Christian_Workers" title="World Movement of Christian Workers">World Movement of Christian Workers</a></b> consists of Catholic workingmen and workingwomen. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Important_sites_for_the_Catholic_Church_in_Europe">Important sites for the Catholic Church in Europe</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Important sites for the Catholic Church in Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Christian_pilgrimage_sites" title="List of Christian pilgrimage sites">List of Christian pilgrimage sites</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Petersdom_von_Engelsburg_gesehen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Petersdom_von_Engelsburg_gesehen.jpg/220px-Petersdom_von_Engelsburg_gesehen.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Petersdom_von_Engelsburg_gesehen.jpg/330px-Petersdom_von_Engelsburg_gesehen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Petersdom_von_Engelsburg_gesehen.jpg/440px-Petersdom_von_Engelsburg_gesehen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter%27s_Basilica" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Peter's Basilica">Saint Peter's Basilica</a> in <a href="/wiki/Vatican_City" title="Vatican City">Vatican City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vatican_City_and_Rome">Vatican City and Rome</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Vatican City and Rome"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_tradition" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic tradition">Catholic tradition</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Saint Peter</a>, one of the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Apostles" class="mw-redirect" title="Twelve Apostles">Twelve Apostles</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jesus_of_Nazareth" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus of Nazareth">Jesus Christ</a> and leader of the <a href="/wiki/Early_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Early church">early church</a>, was crucified and buried in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a> under Emperor <a href="/wiki/Nero" title="Nero">Nero Augustus Caesar</a>. On the place supposed to be the burial site of Saint Peter the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter%27s_Basilica" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Peter's Basilica">Saint Peter's Basilica</a> was built. <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a> is also the residence city of the <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">Pope</a>, the leader of the Catholic Church, who at the same time is also the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Rome" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Rome">Bishop of Rome</a>. Until today the Pope rules over an ecclesiastical state, the <a href="/wiki/Vatican_City" title="Vatican City">Vatican City</a>, which encompasses 44 hectares of the city area. Rome hosts also the Papal <a href="/wiki/Major_basilica" class="mw-redirect" title="Major basilica">Major basilicas</a>. Besides the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter%27s_Basilica" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Peter's Basilica">Saint Peter's Basilica</a> there are three other <a href="/wiki/Major_basilica" class="mw-redirect" title="Major basilica">Major basilicas</a>: <a href="/wiki/Archbasilica_of_Saint_John_Lateran" title="Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran">Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint_Paul_Outside_the_Walls" title="Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls">Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls</a> and <a href="/wiki/Basilica_di_Santa_Maria_Maggiore" class="mw-redirect" title="Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore">Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Santiago_de_Compostela">Santiago de Compostela</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Santiago de Compostela"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One of the most important and famous sites for <a href="/wiki/Pilgrimage" title="Pilgrimage">pilgrimages</a> for the Catholic Church is <a href="/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela" title="Santiago de Compostela">Santiago de Compostela</a> in <a href="/wiki/Galicia_(Spain)" title="Galicia (Spain)">Galicia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela_Cathedral" title="Santiago de Compostela Cathedral">cathedral</a> of the city hosts the <a href="/wiki/Shrine" title="Shrine">shrine</a> of <a href="/wiki/Saint_James_the_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint James the Great">Saint James</a>, one of the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Apostles" class="mw-redirect" title="Twelve Apostles">Twelve Apostles</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>, and traditionally considered the first apostle to be <a href="/wiki/Martyr" title="Martyr">martyred</a>. Santiago de Compostela is the final destination of the <a href="/wiki/Way_of_Saint_James" class="mw-redirect" title="Way of Saint James">Way of Saint James</a> (<a href="/wiki/Galician_language" title="Galician language">Galician</a>: <i>O Camiño de Santiago</i>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assisi">Assisi</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Assisi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Assisi, a town in the <a href="/wiki/Umbria" title="Umbria">Umbria</a> region in <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, hosts two more <a href="/wiki/Papal_basilica" class="mw-redirect" title="Papal basilica">papal basilicas</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Basilica_of_San_Francesco_d%27Assisi" class="mw-redirect" title="Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi">Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Basilica_of_Santa_Maria_degli_Angeli" class="mw-redirect" title="Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli">Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli</a>. The Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi is the <a href="/wiki/Mother_church" title="Mother church">mother church</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Friars_Minor" title="Order of Friars Minor">Order of Friars Minor</a>, commonly known as the "Franciscan Order". Assisi is the town in which the founder of the order, <a href="/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi" title="Francis of Assisi">Saint Francis of Assisi</a>, was born and died. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_by_country" title="Catholic Church by country">Catholic Church by country</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Africa" title="Catholic Church in Africa">Catholic Church in Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic Church in Asia">Catholic Church in Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_North_America" title="Catholic Church in North America">Catholic Church in North America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Latin_America" title="Catholic Church in Latin America">Catholic Church in Latin America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Oceania" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic Church in Oceania">Catholic Church in Oceania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Catholic_dioceses_in_Europe" title="List of Catholic dioceses in Europe">List of Catholic dioceses in Europe</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catholic_Church_in_Europe&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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Lehner. <i>Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History</i> (2014)</li> <li>Chamedes, Giuliana. <i>A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Catholic Europe</i> (Harvard UP, 2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/CIA_Factbook" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA Factbook">CIA Factbook</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070613003300/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html">"Field Listing - Religions"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html">the original</a> on June 13, 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-04-17</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Field+Listing+-+Religions&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cia.gov%2Flibrary%2Fpublications%2Fthe-world-factbook%2Ffields%2F2122.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACatholic+Church+in+Europe" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Gehler, Michael, and Wolfram Kaiser, eds. <i>Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945</i> (Routledge, 2004)</li> <li>Kent, Peter C. and J.F. Pollard, eds. <i>Papal Diplomacy in the Modern Age</i> (Praeger 1994),</li> <li>Kselman, Thomas, and Joseph A. Buttigieg, eds. <i>European Christian Democracy: Historical Legacies and Comparative Perspectives</i> (Notre Dame University Press, 2003)</li> <li>Kosicki, Piotr H. <i> Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and “Revolution,” 1891-1956</i> (Yale University Press, 2018) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdiplo.org/to/RT21-38">multiple online reviews</a></li> <li>Latourette, Kenneth Scott. <i>A history of expansion of Christianity. vol 4. The great century: in Europe and the United States of America; A.D. 1800-A.D. 1914</i> (1941)</li> <li>Latourette, Kenneth Scott. <i>Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, I: The Nineteenth Century in Europe: Background and the Roman Catholic Phase</i> (1969)</li> <li>Latourette, Kenneth Scott. <i>Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, IV: The Twentieth Century in Europe: The Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Churches</i> (1958)</li> <li>MacCulloch, Diarmaid. <i>Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years</i> (2011)</li> <li>Misner, Paul. <i>Social Catholicism in Europe: From the Onset of Industrialization to the First World War</i> (1991)</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 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