To which religion did Augustus III convert in 1712?
Protestantism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Judaism
Roman Catholicism
Answer
Augustus III converted to Roman Catholicism in 1712, which was a political decision that allowed him to be elected as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. He had previously been a Lutheran, but he converted to Catholicism in order to appease the Polish nobility, who were mostly Catholic. His conversion was also seen as a way to strengthen the alliance between Poland and the Holy Roman Empire.
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