Clerical fascism
Clerical fascism (also clero-fascism or clerico-fascism) is an ideology that combines the political and economic doctrines of fascism with clericalism. The term has been used to describe organizations and movements that combine religious elements with fascism, receive support from religious organizations which espouse sympathy for fascism, or fascist regimes in which clergy play a leading role.
the in Austria led by Austrian Catholic Chancellors Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg.
Fatherland Front
the and the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL) in Finland led by the Lutherans (körtti) Vihtori Kosola and Vilho Annala respectively. Pastor Elias Simojoki led the IKL's youth organization the Blue-and-Blacks.
Lapua Movement
the of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany led by Ludwig Müller which attempted but failed to unify German Protestants during the Kirchenkampf.
German Christians
and the 4th of August Regime in Greece which was led by Ioannis Metaxas and heavily supported the Greek Orthodox Church.
Metaxism
the in Mexico led by Mexican Catholic José Antonio Urquiza before his assassination in 1938, it was a revival of the Catholic reaction that triggered the Cristero War; midcentury, the movement would become the focus of a conspiracy theory which alleged that it had infiltrated various institutions under the name El Yunque.
National Synarchist Union
the in Poland led by Boleslaw Piasecki, Henryk Rossman, Tadeusz Gluzinski and Jan Mosdorf which heavily incorporated Polish Catholicism into its ideology, especially the Falangist faction.
National Radical Camp
the in Portugal led by Prime Ministers António de Oliveira Salazar and Marcelo Caetano.
National Union
the /Iron Guard of Romania, which was led by the devoutly Romanian Orthodox Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.
National-Christian Defense League
an ultranationalist and clerical fascist[24] movement, active in Serbia since 2010.[25]
Serbian Action
the of Spain led by Spanish Catholic Francisco Franco, which developed into National Catholicism.
FET y de las JONS
the in the United States led by William Dudley Pelley which combined American Christianity (specifically Protestantism) with American white nationalism.