Protestantism in Spain

Protestantism has had a small impact on Spanish life. In the first half of the 16th century, Reformist ideas failed to gain traction in Castile and Aragon.^[1] In the second half of the century, the Hispanic Monarchy and the Catholic Church managed to clear the territory from any remaining Protestant hotspot, most notably after the autos-da-fé in Valladolid (1559) and Seville (1560), from then on.^[2] 16th-century Inquisition blurred differences between erasmism, iluminismo and protestantism as if they belonged to a common branch.^[3]

Protestant groups have grown in the 20th and 21st centuries in the wake of immigration of Pentecostal Christians from Africa and the Americas. Many Romani people also converted to Pentecostalism in the last decades. Ninety-two percent of Spain's 8,131 villages do not have an evangelical Protestant church.^[4][5]