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1 day ago · e. The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] 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. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the ...
- 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
Matthew Stanley Quay (/ k w eɪ /; September 30, 1833 – May...
- Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych or Ulrich Zwingli (1 January 1484 – 11 October...
- Papal
In the early centuries of Christianity, this title was...
- Diet of Worms
2 days ago · The Church of Ireland ( Irish: Eaglais na hÉireann, pronounced [ˈaɡlˠəʃ n̪ˠə ˈheːɾʲən̪ˠ]; Ulster-Scots: Kirk o Airlann, IPA: [kɪrk ə ˈerlən (d)]) [3] is a Christian church in Ireland, and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.
1 day ago · The Counter-Reformation ( Latin: Contrareformatio ), also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, [1] was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to, the Protestant Reformations at the time. It is frequently dated to have begun with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and to end with the ...
1 day ago · Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone ( c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, [b] was an Italian mystic, poet, and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty, he became a beggar [7] and itinerant preacher.
3 days ago · 1861: Mary A. Will was the first woman ordained in the Wesleyan Methodist Connection by the Illinois Conference in the United States. The Wesleyan Methodist Connection eventually became the Wesleyan Church. 1862: Bishop of London licenses Elizabeth Ferard as the first deaconess in the Church of England.
2 days ago · Ordination of women. First woman Mariavite bishop Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska was consecrated in 1929 in Plock. Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected in 2006 as the first female Presiding Bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church and also the first female primate in the Anglican Communion.
2 days ago · v. t. e. The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a French military order of the Catholic faith, and one of the wealthiest and most popular military orders in Western Christianity. They were founded c. 1119, headquartered on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and existed for nearly ...
