Reformation vs Counter-Reformation

By mastercod
  • 1445

    The "Counter-Reformation" starts

    there were many Catholics who required a reaction from the Church to improve customs, correcting the abuses that had fueled the Protestant Reformation. To this reaction of the Catholic Church to Protestantism
  • 1520

    The beginning of "The Reformation"

    The Reformation is known as the Christian religious movement, initiated in Germany in the sixteenth century by Martin Luther, which led to a schism of the Catholic Church to give rise to numerous churches grouped under the denomination of Protestantism.
  • 1550

    The Protestant Reformation in countries

    There were "Protestant Reformation in some countries, but the most famous were in England, Switzerland and Hungary
  • 1552

    The "Protestant Reformation" in England

    In England, Henry VIII opposed, however, the reform of the Church of England after decreeing the Act of supremacy in which the king himself became head of the Church of England. When his son Eduardo succeeded him with the name of Eduardo VI, with only 9 years of age, the first effective advances of the reform of the Church of England took place.