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[[File:2022-06-05 Sunday 12.02.08 UTC-4 Ampliación Amanecer Neighborhood's Community Center (Temuco).jpg|thumb|Cult of Reconcíliate con Dios Evangelistic Church, in Ampliación Amanecer Neighborhood's Community Center, [[Temuco]].]]<br />
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Research in 2018 suggested that Protestants represent 11-13% of the population of [[Chile]].<ref name=enha_rel>{{cite web |url=http://plazapublica.cl/wp-content/uploads/658799.pdf |title=Encuesta - 2015 |publisher=Plaza Publica Cadem |language=es |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207182725/http://plazapublica.cl/wp-content/uploads/658799.pdf |archivedate=2017-02-07 }}</ref><ref>Latinobarometro enero,2018.</ref> Figures in 2022 note that Protestants represented 2.5% of Chilean people in 2022.<ref>[https://www.thearda.com/world-religion/national-profiles?u=47c ARDA website, Retrieved 2023-07-14| Association of Religion Data Archieves website]</ref> <br />
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Protestants first arrived in Chile in 1812, when missionaries from the [[British and Foreign Bible Society]] travelled the country on foot.<ref>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chile-catholic-church ''Encyclopedia.com'' website]</ref><br />
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In 1848, the first Anglican Church was established in Valparaíso. This was three years after the arrival of the American [[Congregational church|Congregationalist]] (later, [[Presbyterian]]) missionary [[David Trumbull]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://libweb.ptsem.edu/collections/ead/trumbull_david.html |title=The David and Jane Wales Trumbull Manuscript Collection, Douglas F. Denné |access-date=2010-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227104325/http://libweb.ptsem.edu/collections/ead/trumbull_david.html |archive-date=2012-02-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Lutheran]] German immigrants arrived at the same time. Later members of the [[Anglicanism|Anglican]], [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]], [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventists]], [[Methodism|Methodist]], [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]], and other Protestant Churches also came to Chile.<br />
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The first Seventh-Day Adventist missionaries first arrived in 1895.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://adventistatlas.org/ViewCountry.asp?CtryCode=cl |title=Adventist Atlas |access-date=2008-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923061811/http://adventistatlas.org/ViewCountry.asp?CtryCode=cl |archive-date=2013-09-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> There are estimated to be 126,814 Adventists in Chile.<br />
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Changes in the Constitution in 1925 led to numbers of citizens falling away from the Catholic Church and becoming Protestants.<ref>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chile-catholic-church ''Encyclopedia.com'' website]</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Religion in Chile]]<br />
*[[Christianity in Chile]]<br />
*[[Catholic Church in Chile]]<br />
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