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, founder of the Lutheran Protestant sect.
.Roman Catholic AnswerOnly one: the Catholic Church was the only Church involved in the protestant revolt when the "protestants" left the Church.
A Scottish Minister and leader of the Protestant Reformation, John Knox, is considered the founder of the Presbyterian Church. A "firebrand" preacher, He was exiled under Mary Tudor. He left for France, then going to Geneva where he met John Calvin, who so influenced Knox, that he brought the Presbyterian form of government to the church and Calvinism to its doctrinal matters.
Roman Catholic AnswerNo one, the Catholic Church cannot be "combined" with anything. The Anglican Church is a protestant church that was formed by Henry VIII as he left the Catholic Church and then it was established by Parliament under his daughter, Elizabeth I.
First off, it's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. . Secondly, Martin Luther never started a movement to reform the Catholic Church, Martin Luther LEFT the Catholic Church to start his own Church. Which is a completely different thing. That is commonly mislabeled as the protestant reformation, Catholics refer to it as the protestant revolt.
because the catholic church wouldn't let Henry viii divorce Catherine of aragon so he left the church and made a new one
The Lutherans - a Church set up by Martin Luther in protest (ie 'Protestant') against what he saw as corruption in the Church of Rome.
Henry VIII left the Catholic Church and founded a now widespread protestant domination. The Church of England is also known as the Anglican Church, and the Episcopal Church.
The sixteenth century was the upheaval known as the protestant revolt. At that time, the Peace of Westphalia decreed that if a prince left the Catholic Church to become a protestant, then everyone in his kingdom also had to become protestant, thus many sincere Catholics were denied access to the sacraments.
The Protestant denomination of Christianity was formed from this breakaway.
Ted Haggard was an evangelical pastor, former founder of the New Life Church in Colorado, that left the church scene after accusations of homosexual relationship and drug use.
Roman Catholic AnswerNo, when the Philippine Independent Church started up at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Vatican instructed the Archbishop of the Philippines to excommunicate everyone involved. The Philippine Independent Church is just another protestant church that left the Catholic Church, although they maintain a Catholic structure, but they have rejected the Holy Father in Rome, and made common cause with the Anglicans - a protestant church that started in a similar way as the "Catholic" national Church in England.