Protestantism in Chile
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Research in 2018 suggested that Protestants represent 11-13% of the population of Chile.{{cite web |url=http://plazapublica.cl/wp-content/uploads/658799.pdf |title=Encuesta - 2015 |publisher=Plaza Publica Cadem |language=es |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207182725/http://plazapublica.cl/wp-content/uploads/658799.pdf |archivedate=2017-02-07 }}Latinobarometro enero,2018. Figures in 2022 note that Protestants represented 2.5% of Chilean people in 2022.[https://www.thearda.com/world-religion/national-profiles?u=47c ARDA website, Retrieved 2023-07-14| Association of Religion Data Archieves website]
Protestants first arrived in Chile in 1812, when missionaries from the British and Foreign Bible Society travelled the country on foot.[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chile-catholic-church Encyclopedia.com website]
In 1848, the first Anglican Church was established in Valparaíso. This was three years after the arrival of the American Congregationalist (later, Presbyterian) missionary David Trumbull.{{Cite web |url=http://libweb.ptsem.edu/collections/ead/trumbull_david.html |title=The David and Jane Wales Trumbull Manuscript Collection, Douglas F. Denné |access-date=2010-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227104325/http://libweb.ptsem.edu/collections/ead/trumbull_david.html |archive-date=2012-02-27 |url-status=dead }} Lutheran German immigrants arrived at the same time. Later members of the Anglican, Presbyterian, Seventh-day Adventists, Methodist, Pentecostal, and other Protestant Churches also came to Chile.
The first Seventh-Day Adventist missionaries first arrived in 1895.{{Cite web |url=http://adventistatlas.org/ViewCountry.asp?CtryCode=cl |title=Adventist Atlas |access-date=2008-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923061811/http://adventistatlas.org/ViewCountry.asp?CtryCode=cl |archive-date=2013-09-23 |url-status=dead }} There are estimated to be 126,814 Adventists in Chile.
Changes in the Constitution in 1925 led to numbers of citizens falling away from the Catholic Church and becoming Protestants.[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chile-catholic-church Encyclopedia.com website]