Persecution of Christians by Christians

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Short description: When a Christian denomination persecutes another Christian denomination

Persecution of Christians by Christians occurs when one Christian denomination persecutes another Christian denomination, either nonviolently via religious censorship and coercion or violently via religious wars, sieges, massacres, rebellions, crusades, or acts of terrorism.

Nonviolent persecution

Censorship

  • Bulls, etc., from Rome Act 1571, by Anglicans against Catholics
  • Conventicle Act 1664 and Conventicles Act 1670, by Anglicans against non-Anglicans
  • Corporation Act 1661, by Anglicans against Presbyterians
  • Five Mile Act 1665, by Anglicans against non-Anglicans
  • Heresy Act 1382, by Anglicans against Anglicans deemed heretics
  • Italian Racial Laws, by Catholics against Evangelicals and Pentecostals
  • Jesuits, etc. Act 1584, by Anglicans against Catholics
  • Popery Act 1698, by Anglicans against Catholics
  • Popish Recusants Act 1592 and Popish Recusants Act 1605, by Anglicans against Catholics
  • Putting away of Books and Images Act 1549, by Anglicans against non-Anglicans
  • Revival of the Heresy Acts, by Catholics against Protestants
  • See of Rome Act 1536, by Anglicans against Catholics
  • Statute in Restraint of Appeals, by Anglicans against Catholics
  • Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535 and Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539, by Anglicans against Catholics

Coercion

  • Acts of Supremacy, by Catholics against Catholics who submitted to the Pope
  • Act of Uniformity, by Anglicans against non-Anglican
  • Religion Act 1580 and Religion Act 1592, by Anglicans against Catholics
  • Union of Brest and Union of Uzhhorod, by Catholics against Orthodox Christians

Violent persecution

Main page: Religion:Sectarian violence among Christians

Crusades

Main page: Religion:Crusades
  • Albigensian Crusade, by Catholics against Cathars
  • Northern Crusades, by Catholics against Orthodox Christians

Massacres

Rebellions

  • 1562 Riots of Toulouse, by Huguenots against Catholics
  • Bigod's rebellion, by Catholics against Protestants
  • Day of the Barricades, by Catholics against Protestants
  • Huguenot rebellions, by Huguenots against Catholics
  • Irish Rebellion of 1641, by Catholics against Protestants
  • Knight's Revolt, by Protestants against Catholics
  • Pilgrimage of Grace, by Catholics against Protestants
  • Spanish Fury, by Protestants against Catholics

Sieges

  • Siege of Caudebec, by Protestants against Catholics
  • Siege of Drogheda, by Protestants against Catholics

Terrorism

  • Gunpowder Plot, by Catholics against Protestants

Wars

  • Battle of Carbisdale, by Anglicans against Covenanters
  • Battle of Inverkeithing, by Anglicans against Covenanters
  • Battle of Rathmines, by Anglicans against Catholics
  • Eighty Years' War, by Catholics against Protestants
  • European wars of religion, by Catholics against Protestants and Protestants against Protestants during the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries
  • First Battle of Newbury, by Protestants against Catholics
  • First War of Kappel and Second War of Kappel, by Protestants against Catholics
  • Irish Confederate Wars, by Catholics against Protestants
  • German Peasants' War, by Anabaptists against Catholics
  • Schmalkaldic War and Second Schmalkaldic War, by Catholics against Lutherans
  • Sonderbund War, by Protestants against Catholics
  • Thirty Years' War, by Protestants against Catholics
  • Toggenburg War, by Protestants against Catholics
  • War of the Eight Saints, by Catholics against Catholics who were associated with the Avignon Papacy
  • War of the Three Henrys, by Catholics against Protestants
  • Wars of the Three Kingdoms, by Protestants against Catholics

See also

References





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