Widow Conservation
Widow conservation was a practice in Protestant Europe in the early modern age, when the widow of a parish church, parish vicar (or sometimes her daughter) would marry her husband's successor to the vicarage to ensure her economic support. The practice was common in Scandinavia (''Änkekonservering''/''Enkekonservering'') and Protestant parts of Germany (''Konservierung von Pfarrwitwen''). It is related to other forms of widow inheritance, including the levirate marriage known in the Old Testament as ''yibbum''. At the introduction of the Protestant Reformation, priests were Clerical marriage#Protestant Churches, allowed to marry. However, as they tied accommodation, did not own the vicarage and property attached to their profession, their wife and children were left without a home and means of support after their death. The future support of the widows and children of vicars thereby became a concern for the various churches. The most common solution was for the successor of a vicar ...
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Protestant Europe
Christianity is the largest religion in Europe. Christianity has been practiced in Europe since the first century, and a number of the Pauline Epistles were addressed to Christians living in Greece, as well as other parts of the Roman Empire. According to a 2010 study by the Pew Research Center, 76.2% of the Demographics of Europe, European population identified themselves as Christians.Christianity in Europe
including the Asian part of Russia, excluding the European part of Turkey As of 2010, Roman Catholics were the largest Christians, Christian group in Europe, accounting for more than 48% of European Christians. The second-largest Christian group in Europe were the Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox, who made up 32% of European Christians.
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