catholic timeline

By patrickbrophy
  • Jul 16, 1054

    eastern othodox church

    founder - Jesus Christ
    split from - they split from the west after the east-west schism
    why they split - they split because of papal authority
  • Period: 1500 to

    Lutheran church

    founder - martin Luther
    split from - the roman Catholics
    why - denouncing the Catholic sale of indulgences pardons for sins and questioning papal authority.
  • 1534

    church of england

    founder - it was started by two people Thomas Cranmer and Augustine of Canterbury.
    split from - Henry the eight broke ties with the pope in the 1530's
    why -
    When Pope Clement VII refused to approve the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon

  • baptist

    founder - roger Williams
    split from - church of England
    why - they believed church membership should be voluntary and that only believers should be baptized.

  • Presbyterian

    founder - John Calvin of Switzerland and John Knox of Scotland.
    split from - catholic church
    why - when the country was engulfed in civil war.

  • Methodist

    founder - john Wesley
    split from - The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church
    why - when there was a shortage of ordained ministers in America after the Revolution, the Bishop of London refused to ordain a Methodist for the United States.

  • uniting church

    founder - the Congregational Union of Australia, the Methodist Church of Australasia and the Presbyterian Church of Australia.
    split from - the Methodist Church of Australasia
    why - It combines three churches: the Congregational Union of Australia, the Methodist Church of Australasia and the Presbyterian Church of Australia.

  • hillsong

    founder - brain and his wife Bobbie Houston
    split from - Australian catholic churches
    why - it is a more music focused church and is the Australian branch of the Assemblies of God