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Jesus started the First Church which was the Catholic Church. Martin Luther started the Lutheran Church.
Martin Luther first set out to reform the Catholic Church but ended up spliting it into different sects including Lutherenism.
Martin Luther and his followers formed the first true Protestant Church.
Martin Luther
The first "denominations" left the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century with Martin Luther leading the apostasy.
I believe it was after Martin Luther the writer of the 95 thesis, who also was the reason we have the Lutheran Church and other protestant churches (Non-Catholic), but I am not positive that is who he was named after
Martin Luther led the reformation which began in Germany. It was formed as a reaction to the percieved corruption of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, especially the Papal policy of the sale of indulgences (the ability for a person to pay for forgiveness and exemptions from commited mortal and corporeal sins)
The answer will surely vary but some believe the first to combine Judeo-Christian teachings on righteousness and social justice with secular philosophical humanism was Justin Martyr in the 2nd Century AD. See related link below for more historical developments:
Martin Luther was one of the main people who started the Protestant Reformation so is sometimes considered the founder of Protestantism. However, there is no one thing called the "Protestant Church" so there is no one founder of it.
Martin Luther when he published his "95 theses".
he was a pastor of a baptist church in Montgomery,Alabama in September 1 1954