Were the Knights Templar Catholics or Christians?

None were catholic. The pope had NO authority over the Templars, and the Templars DID NOT serve the pope. Contrary to the vatican nonsense, which is the oft repeated 'history'. The 'servants' to the pope were the hospitaliers, who were the sworn enemy of the Templars. read more

Catholic is a subset of Christian, as is Orthodox and Protestant. So the Knights Templar were a order of Catholic knights, what today we might call warrior monks, who had become rather powerful in Europe and thus challenged political and church authority. read more

On a raw March afternoon in 1314, a scaffold stood in the shadow of Notre Dame. The people of Paris knew what macabre show was imminent. Seven years before, the King’s constables had stormed all the Templar estates in France and arrested 5000 knights of the order, much to the astonishment of the people. read more

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Latin: Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici), also known as the Order of Solomon's Temple, the Knights Templar or simply as Templars, were a Catholic military order recognised in 1139 by papal bull Omne Datum Optimum of the Holy See. read more