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Religious History of Alsace-Lorraine

Reformer Martin Luther - Wikipedia Editor's Note: It's amazing to see the hand of God at work in world/church history. I'm currently reading about the history of the French Huguenots and the author states that the Protestants in Alsace escaped the persecution in France because at that time it was a part of Germany. My father-in-law, Raymond Wittman , told me his family in Alsace were Lutheran. -AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Reformer Martin Bucer - Wikipedia Excerpt from Alsace-Lorraine (Wikipedia) : Alsace is generally seen as the most religious of all the French regions. Most of the Alsatian population is Roman Catholic , but, largely because of the region's German heritage, a significant Protestant community also exists: today, the EPCAAL (a Lutheran church) is France's second largest Protestant church, also forming an administrative union ( UEPAL ) with the much smaller Calvinist EPRAL . Unlike the rest of France, the Local law in Alsace-Moselle s