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“Celtic Christianity spread from Ireland”

91.6% Catholic (not counting Ulster)

“to, Britain,”

High Church Protestant with a substantial Catholic minority (their Census doesn’t seem to take denominational figures for England and Wales)

“Iceland,”

87.1% Evangelical Lutheran

“North and Central France,”

83%-88% Catholic

“Belgium,”

75% Catholic

“Holland,”

31% Catholic, 21% Protestant, 40% unaffiliated. Mostly Reformed Protestant in the past.

“Germany,”

34% Protestant (mostly Lutheran), 34% Roman Catholic

“Southern Denmark,”

95% Evangelical Lutheran

“Czech Republic,”

39.2% Catholic, 4.6% Protestant, 39.8% atheist

“Switzerland,”

The home of Geneva, yes, but 46.1% Catholic, 40% Protestant

“Northern Italy”

Predominantly Roman Catholic (they don’t seem to keep figures)

“and Slovenia.”

70.8% Roman Catholic (2% Uniate)

Forgive me if I’m being dense, but I don’t see any overwhelming trend towards predominant Protestantism here. Of course, a large number of the countries that did turn out to be majority Protestant are in this sphere; but so, too, are a large number of the countries that turned out to be majority Catholic. (If you go much further east, you end up in the Byzantine and Turkish sphere of influence; if you go much further west, you fall into the ocean.)