The break from the Catholic church, led by Luther, is officially known as the Protestant Reformation.
AnswerThe Protestant Reformation by protestants. Catholics mostly refer to it as the protestant revolt..Catholic AnswerThe Lutheran Ecclesial Community did not "break away" from the Catholic Church. It was founded by Martin Luther, a heretic who left the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century and was excommunicated.
His followers. I have been raised Lutheran and I have learned that Martin Luther's original intentions were not at all to break with the Catholic church, he in fact encouraged his followers not to break from the church, he just wanted to change the corruptness of it and focus more on the Bible. The way I understand it to be is that Martin Luther's followers (not Martin Luther, it was after his death) broke from the Catholic church because they recognized the strength of the church itself and were insulted by the fact that the Catholic church excommunicated Luther.
Well, Martin Luther found Protestantism but he never wanted to separate from the Catholic church just change their ways, But yes he did leave the Catholic Church.
Martin Luther
Because he was the first Catholic priest to break away from the Catholic Church, and eventually he translated the Latin Bible into German, hence starting the Lutheran religion, which was the first Protestant religion to break away from the Catholic Church
Martin Luther is now known as the father of the Protestant Reformation. His biggest break from the Catholic Church happened because he did not believe in indulgences, or that money could purchase freedom from sin.
The protestant reformation was caused by Martin Luther who wrote the ninety-five theses. He criticized the Catholic church and other followed him, causing a break-away from the roman catholic church.
He was Catholic, although his actions may define him as the first Protestant.Martin Luther was a Catholic, an Augustinian monk in fact, until his theological division with the teachings of the Catholic Church led him to break with it and found his own. There is somewhat of a controversy as to whether he considered he truly broke from the Church or if he considered himself to be Catholic though in opposition to the pope or whether he saw himself as founding a new church, which is now known as the Lutheran church.
Roman Catholic AnswerIn England, Henry VIII split from the Catholic Church over the Church not allowing him to divorce his lawfully wedded wife. In Germany the princes in northern Germany used Martin Luther as an excuse to free themselves from Rome.
Christians did not break away from the Catholic Church, they remained Christians, protestants broke away from the Catholic Church in the 16th century.
Neither Martin Luther King, Sr. nor Martin Luther King Jr. ever broke away from the Catholic Church. They were both ever Baptists, and never Catholics. It was correctly the man they had been named after, Martin Luther, who had the controversy with the Catholic Church five hundred years earlier. Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. They turned him away. He did not leave them.
No king has ever replaced a pope as head of the Catholic Church. Henry VIII did break from the Catholic Church and formed what is the Church of England but which is not a Catholic Church as it is not in union with Rome.