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The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
- Diet of Worms
Luther at the Diet of Worms, an 1877 portrait depicting...
- Talk
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- Protestant Reformers
Protestant Reformers were theologians whose careers, works...
- Frederick III
Frederick III (17 January 1463 – 5 May 1525), also known as...
- History
History (derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía)...
- Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych or Ulrich Zwingli (1 January 1484 – 11 October...
- Papal
As part of the Catholic Reformation, Pope Paul III...
- Counter-Reformation
The Counter-Reformation (Latin: Contrareformatio), also...
- Catholic Church
While the Roman Church has been used to describe the pope's...
- Diet of Worms
The history of the Catholic Church is the formation, events, and historical development of the Catholic Church through time. The tradition of the Catholic Church claims it began with Jesus Christ and his teachings; the Catholic tradition considers that the Church is a continuation of the early Christian community established by the Disciples of ...
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The Catholic Reformation was a reform movement that took place within the Roman Catholic Church during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The movement is also known as the Counter Reformation, but many historians prefer not to use this term because it suggests that changes within the church were simply a reaction to Protestantism.
Summarize This Article. The age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The most traumatic era in the entire history of Roman Catholicism, some have argued, was the period from the middle of the 14th century to the middle of the 16th.
The Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation are men and women executed under treason legislation in the English Reformation, between 1534 and 1680, and recognised as martyrs by the Catholic Church.
