I was an "Evangelical Protestant. First Pentecostal, then nondenominational, until I became Catholic.

Mainline Protestant (Lutheran, Presybyterian, etc)

Not practicing though. I did believe in God, but I was bad. Lol... (and if any sister reads this, do forgive me...but now you know the real me) Before my awesome conversion started, last year "Late '04" I would be in school, and a lot of things have happened to me in school, but I was at that age where you think it was okay to use God's name in vain.

So I did that often in middle school...I never swore except for using "hell" quite a bit, except one time where I reached into a 560 degree oven since I forgot to pull out the pan that was in there, and being freaked out grabbed the "metal" handle and cursed, Holy S of course my mom accepted that since I could have nearly burnt my hand off, but now...I am 100% Catholic New!

Annabaptist/Mennonite/Hutterite...lived in community like the Amish. lol. I don't really think that fits into any of your categories!

I would put that into "Evangelical," it's not mainline, and I'm guessing you didn't allow infant baptism.

What kind of convert was I?

Sort of a kicking and screaming one...

Methodist/ budding Fundamentalist

ELCA

I was born and baptised a Presbyterian, but I was very non-religious all of my life before finding the Catholic Church, on my own. I guess you could've called me agnostic -- I certainly wasn't bold enough to reject the possibility of a God, but I also felt that religious people were overly bold in thinking that they knew exactly who God was, what He was like, and what He was all about. I was comfortable in that unknowing space for a long, long time. But then it came time for me to make a decision. I'm glad I did!

Amen, sister.

Lutheran. Its kind of amazing how similar they are to Rome, they have the same Sunday readings and such. Here's hoping that more will cross the Tiber.

I do miss the hot dish potlucks though.

Yeah me too, until God whipped me for my tantrum, after that I ran to Church with arm sopen wide.

Former Lutheran (Missouri Syond).

My husband and I looked at each other at Easter Vigil thinking: "what are we doing here... this is crazy..."

Sorta like if we'd gone to Vegas, gotten really drunk and woke up the next morning married (well, we are married.... but you get the idea)....

Okay, not exactly, but similar..

Amen to that.

craddle Cahotlic here... almost fit in the 'revert' category and had a period of my life that almost fell into the atheist category.

I thank the Lord daily for His gift of fatih.

im a reverted revert

I knew I was christian, but i wasnt any certain denomination

I was a schmucky dissenting cradle Catholic/"intellectual atheist"

Crazy nondenominatalismentist

Lol..... I was there, between Pentecostalism and Catholicism......

I was a Protestant mutt ... large doses of Presbyterian, a bit of Baptist, some Wesleyan and Methodist, a smattering of Christian & Missionary Alliance, and a dash of charismatic thrown in for good measure. Most recently I was Presbyterian.

Lol, an dI think my background is complicated....

I think it's mainly because I was dissatisfied with every church I tried at some level, which kept me from staying any one place. Nothing ever fit together as a seamless whole until I found the Catholic Church.

I was raised mainline, became agnostic and then Pagan, then became Christian (nondenominational Evangelical type church). Now I"m becoming Catholic and my journey is finally over... and at the same time finally beginning...

Welcome Home to Christ's Church!

Are you even old enough for that?

I was a Christian Church (Independant Churches of Christ) kind of guy until about 6 months ago. I'll be confirmed at Easter Vigil.

Awesome. Welcome Home to Christ's Church and to Phatmass, Joey.

i was an original sinner

I'm a revert! And let me tell you, God's Grace is infinite! It took a Catholic bashing Evangelical to relight my fire, so thank God for those Sunday morning Q&A sessions!

I was a presbyterian prior to converting. I converted to marry my wife and was a lousy convert. I later reverted and began the journey I should have taken on many years ago.

Weird and wacky anglo-catholic and boy do I miss all that incense!!!

I was a member of Norways state religion. It is a lutheran church. The church is sometimes liberal, and sometimes conservative, and it is run by people which is not Christian

Raised 'high' anglican as a child but spent years in the baptist, pentecostal and 'house church' movement......followed by many years in the wilderness of feminist theology.......followed by a further 10 minutes as an anglo catholic before understanding 'I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church....'

there are a lot of complicated stories on here. THough I didn't realize there were this many people that watched the conversion board.

if i understand the term cradle catholic right then thats me.

Me... I was Presbyterian, then Lutheran. Excommunicated form the Presbyterian Church for Heresy, ran to the Lutherans, that wasn't saomething I totally bought. (THe first thing I accepted was the Eucharist... before lone, sola scriptura went with the rest of my Protestantism).

I was born and raised Catholic. Then i became a jehovahs witness for a year. Then i spent 12 yrs in various Protestant denoms (church of christ, AOG, Baptist, Bible church, non-denom) then eventually came back to the Catholic church 3 yrs ago! Whew..glad i am home..it was a bumpy ride!

Sounds bumpy!

I'm a revert.

see below

Bible bangin', hand swaying, amen saying, evangelical southern baptist here....oh thank goodness i'm not there anymore... you want to know the funny thing...my pastor's name was Jim JOnes...he gave me kool aid once, i didn't drink it....

Cradle Catholic...

Wow. Those survey results were not what I expected. I thought cradle Catholic and maybe revert would dominate the board, but there is a good mix here. Thank you God!

well, this is the convert page . . . so we may be slightly disproportionate on this set of pages . . .

revert to the Faith

I was baptised on April 10, 1977 a Zion United Methodist, until I converted to Catholicism and on April 10, 2004 I became a daughter of Holy Mother Church, The Greatest and Most Blessed Day of My life!!!

welcome home!

Came from the Afrikaner Dutch Reformed Church...

I was a lapsed Lutheran.