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Nine out of the 13 colonies had an established church. These include New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Voting was limited to the inhabitants that were full in church communions which left the limitations to a minority of male inhabitants.
An established church is a self governing/autonomous and self propagating church.
In 1620 the Purtians established Plymouth colony and within that colony it was very important, but there were no other colonies in Massachusetts in 1620.
Both Maryland and Massachusetts were established as a place for a specific religious group that opposed the Anglican church. Massachusetts was for Puritans and Maryland was for Catholics.
The Anglican Church was the "established" Church of England, established by Parliment.
First Baptist Church in Newton - Massachusetts - was created in 1780.
In the Middle Ages the Church imposed restrictions, and in later centuries it was mainly governments that imposed restrictions.
the Church of England was established because he wanted a new wife.
The first Protestant church established in Japan was the Yokohama Kaigan Church. It was built in 1872.
Connecticut was founded by Thomas Hooker and other Protestants who left Massachusetts because the right to vote there was limited to people who were accepted into the Church. Hooker disagreed with this and other beliefs of the Massachusetts Puritans and left to form Connecticut.