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He was a protestant, a baptized Catholic who refused to practice his faith.

. Catholic Answer Martin Luther was a Catholic until the Church excommunicated him. That did not make him a protestant, after he was excommunicated, he refused to repent and started his own Church, that is when he became a protestant.

Answer: Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany, in November 1483. Though a copper-mine worker, his father managed to earn enough to secure a good education for Martin. In 1501, Martin became a student at the University of Erfurt. At the age of 22, Luther entered the Augustine monastery in Erfurt. He later attended the University of Wittenberg, obtaining a doctorate in theology.The Reformation, spurred on by men like Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli, led to the formation of a new approach to religion called Protestantism.

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