They saw it as unnecessary and dangerous for Britain, a Protestant state, to finance a Catholic seminary.

The main points of this process were: In 1530, Prussia became a secular Protestant state.

West Virginia showed that Kennedy, a Catholic, could win in a heavily Protestant state.

They brought much needed unskilled labor and Catholicism to a historically Protestant state.

Protestant states tended to be the chief beneficiaries of this international series of religious movements.

Catholics no longer had to reckon with the hostility of a Protestant state.

In 1635, he returned to Frankfurt to attend a meeting of the Protestant states and their allies.

Even so, it was widely believed after the election that Kennedy lost some heavily Protestant states because of his Catholicism.

His victory in West Virginia, a heavily Protestant state, put him on the road to overcoming religious prejudice.

Nevertheless, from this point on, Scotland was, in effect, a Protestant state.