High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Most Poles, by far, adhere to the Christian faith, with 89.8% belonging to the Roman Catholic Church. Catholicism plays an important role in the lives of many Poles and the Roman Catholic Church in Poland enjoys immense social prestige and political influence. The church is widely respected by both its members and non-members, who see it as a symbol of Polish heritage and culture. The rest of the population consists mainly of Eastern Orthodox (about 506 000), Jehovah's Witnesses (about 220 000) and various Protestant (about 159 000, with about 76 000 in the largest Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland) religious minorities. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Poland was famous for its unique religious tolerance. However in the 15th and 18th century, pressure from the Catholic Church caused tensions to rise between Catholics and Protestants after the Edict of Wielun and later the Tumult of Torun contributing to the Age of Enlightenment.

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