Usage of "established religion"

Russian

официальная религия

Portuguese

religião oficial

Catalan

religió estatal

Spanish

estado confesional

Religious body or creed officially endorsed by the state.

официальная религия

Usage of established religion in English

A sovereign attached to the established religion might sit on the throne. 
 The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ... 

This approach is even endorsed, implicitly if not explicitly, by established religion. 
 The Prosperity of Humankind 

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. 
 Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics 

The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence. 
 Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 

There was a change for the better when Christianity became the established religion. 
 The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 / A Typographic Art Jo... 

They did not come here with the enlarged idea of no established religion. 
 The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 

Even western Europe, held back by its legacy of established religion, will soon follow. 
 The Guardian 

There is now no established religion in Japan, Buddhism having been abolished in 1874. 
 Round the World 

Mexico's established religion under the Constitution, being Roman Catholic, did not permit its perpetuation. 
 Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 / A Political History of... 

This, Madison believed, was not a promising start for the notion of an established religion. 
 Idiot america: how stupidity became a virtue in the land of the ... 

Among the laity who conformed to the established religion the parties were not unevenly balanced. 
 The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ... 

The established religion is the Russo-Greek, or Græco-Russian, known officially as the Orthodox Catholic Faith. 
 Russia, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers 

To express views openly at variance with the established religion was to imperil one's life. 
 Mystics and Saints of Islam 

The Church of England was the established religion. 
 A Brief History of the United States 

The established religion of the Moors is Mahometan. 
 Travels through the Empire of Morocco 

Their movement was an extreme revolt against the formalism, corporate character, and externality of established religion. 
 The American Nation: A History — Volume 1: European Background o... 