Wikipedia's article on Joao I of Kongo (Nzinga a Nkuwu), community-edited. Reliable for the settled date of his baptism, 3 May 1491, alongside his family, following a Portuguese mission that brought priests, masons and soldiers; and for his own later abandonment of Catholicism in 1495, a reversal the article attributes in part to the church's requirement of monogamy conflicting with Kongo's matrilineal, elective political structure.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_of_Kongo
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Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 1491 baptism and the 1495 apostasy, both stated plainly and without hedging in the article's own text. NotesUsed for the 1491 baptism of the Kongo king and his 1495 return to traditional practice.
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