John Calvin
The counter reformation
Yes he did, he was the starter of Protestanism.
No
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it supported it because they led to new creations that helped the church and its people
Catholics didn't start Protestantism. Protestants started Protestantism and this began with Martin Luther in 1517.
I may be wrong on this but I know it started after the Martin Luther era. Which was the start of the protestant movement. Exact location.. that I am unsure of.
Early 16th Century. It began with a German monk named Martin Luther, but it was the end result of the Protestant Reformation as a whole.
The protestant reformation is the name of the religious reform movement that divided the Roman Catholic Church.
Catholicism and Protestanism were main and Anglicanism began as an 'interweaving' of these two. See related link below:
The religion most practiced is christianity and the three major branches are Roman catholicism, Orthox Christianity, and Protestanism.