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Lutheranism was founded in 1519 by Martin Luther in Germany. This religion was founded as a way to reform the Roman Catholic Church.

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In 1520 Zwinglianism was founded by Huldreich Zwingli in Switzerland. He believed that both the church and the state are placed under the supreme rule of God. Christians had to obey the government but if they didn’t they could be thrown in jail.

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Henry VIII started the process of creating the Church of England after his split with the Pope in the 1530s. Henry was anxious to have a boy baby after his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, had only a daughter. He wanted to get divorced

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Calvinism was founded by John Calvin in 1536
in Switzerland. He helped popularize the idea of predestination. Predestination means when god decided who goes to heaven and who doesn't before their life.

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Jonathan Edwards founded the first congregational church in 1730 in New England. The Church of England was too much like the Roman Catholicism.

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The Methodist church was founded in 1743 by John Wesley in the United Kingdom. He created Methodism to practice the methodical pursuit of biblical holiness.