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Sentence Examples As a result of the efforts of reformers such as John Knox, a Protestant ascendancy was established. Methodism and other Protestant churches have had a major presence in Wales. These were based on the older liturgy but influenced by Protestant principles. Bishop Richard Davies and dissident Protestant cleric John Penry introduced Calvinist theology to Wales. Between 1520 and 1550, printing presses in Spain were tightly controlled, and any books of Protestant teaching were prohibited. They found this in the teaching of the Protestant reformers such as Martin Luther. A significant Protestant minority remained, most of it adhering to the Calvinist faith. Word of the Protestant reformers reached Italy in the 1520s, but never caught on. Not only was the Church highly aggressive in seeking out heresy and suppressing it, but there was a shortage of Protestant leadership. The Waldensian Church survived in the Western Alps through many persecutions and remains a Protestant church in Italy. He was the key figure of the Protestant Church of the Slovene Lands, as he was its founder and its first superintendent. For this reason, the Protestant Reformation is said to have started in England with this act. He was more devout in his faith, and persecution of Protestant subjects ceased. This translation was in a language and dialect specific to the English people and to their Protestant religion. James I fulfilled the efforts of Protestant reformers who had been supporting the distribution of Bibles in common language for decades. The peasant Irish population was intended to be relocated to live near garrisons and Protestant churches. The Protestant clerics imported were usually all monoglot English speakers, whereas the native population were usually monoglot Gaelic speakers. The massacres had a devastating and lasting impact on the Ulster Protestant population. It seemed that James's reign would be short and the throne would soon return to Protestant hands. For the most part, however, the Highlands are considered predominantly Protestant, loyal to the Church of Scotland. Show More Sentences Thereafter, the largely English Protestant Ascendancy dominated Irish government and landholding. From Grattan in the 1770s to Parnell up to 1890, nearly all the leaders of Irish separatism were Protestant nationalists. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. The church continued to resist, and by early 1937 Hitler abandoned his hope of uniting the Protestant churches. During the Marian persecutions, three women, the Guernsey Martyrs, were burned at the stake for their Protestant beliefs. The party was established in 1971 by Ian Paisley and Desmond Boal and other members of the Protestant Unionist Party. And its establishment arguably stemmed from insecurities of the Ulster Protestant working class. From the beginning, the party had a strong association with the Orange Order, a Protestant fraternal organisation. He was one of the group of Protestant churchmen who met with Provisional IRA officers in Feakle, County Clare to try to broker peace. Like the mother church, the Methodist Church in Ghana was established by people of Protestant background. The first Protestant worship service was conducted on 28 August 1898 by an American military chaplain named Rev. There are also evangelical Protestant churches in the country of the Methodist tradition like the Wesleyan Church of the Philippines, Inc. A few years later the principal of the school created a Methodist university, the first and only Protestant university in Mexico. The effect was akin to the individualistic trends present in Europe during the Protestant Reformation. The Orthodox Church does not subscribe to the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura. At that point, many in the then church in Scotland broke with Rome, in a process of Protestant reform led, among others, by John Knox. For historical and cultural reasons, the Church of Ireland is generally identified as a Protestant church. Gladstone's first ministry saw many reforms including Disestablishment of the Protestant Church of Ireland and the introduction of secret voting. Seven years after their engagement, on 19 June 1843 they got married in a Protestant church in Kreuznach. With the advent of the Protestant Reformation, numbers of Southern German towns closed their brothels in an attempt to eradicate prostitution. Show More Sentences The most common Protestant denominations are Pentecostal and Evangelical ones. During the Protestant Reformation, the Finns gradually converted to Lutheranism. The Plantation of Ulster allowed English and Scottish Protestant candidates in as representatives of the newly formed boroughs in planted areas. William's successor was Mary's sister Anne, who had no surviving children and so the Protestant succession seemed in doubt. It was part of the wider European Protestant Reformation that took place from the sixteenth century. Their martyrdom stirred resentment of the French and inspiring additional martyrs for the Protestant cause. The Scottish Reformation Parliament of 1560 adopted a Protestant confession of faith, rejecting papal jurisdiction and the mass. James was brought up a Protestant, but resisted Presbyterianism and the independence of the Kirk. Traditional Protestant historiography tended to stress the corruption and unpopularity of the late Medieval Scottish church. He administered a Protestant communion and carried out a preaching tour of the privy kirks. The regent responded by sending troops to restore order and Glencairn led a force to defend the town's new Protestant status. During the ensuing Siege of Leith, French troops fortified the port and town of Leith against an English and Scottish Protestant force. On his return to Scotland, Knox led the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Protestant nobility. The Protestant nobles and others, including Knox, were taken prisoner and forced to row in the French galleys. In the pulpit he preached Protestant doctrines with great effect as his congregation grew. With the country no longer safe for Protestant preachers, Knox left for the Continent in January 1554 on the advice of friends. With a Protestant on the throne, the English refugees in Geneva prepared to return home. Two days after Knox arrived in Edinburgh, he proceeded to Dundee where a large number of Protestant sympathisers had gathered. With Protestant reinforcements arriving from neighbouring counties, the Queen Regent retreated to Dunbar. On 30 June, the Protestant Lords of the Congregation occupied Edinburgh, though they were able to hold it for only a month. Show More Sentences Her secretary, William Maitland of Lethington, defected to the Protestant side, bringing his administrative skills. St Fin Barre's Cathedral serves the Protestant faith and is possibly the more famous of the two. When he returned to Edinburgh, he found the Protestant nobles divided over what to do with Mary. The Protestant reformer John Knox preached against Mary, condemning her for hearing Mass, dancing, and dressing too elaborately. Even the one significant later addition to the council, Lord Ruthven in December 1563, was another Protestant whom Mary personally disliked. Elizabeth had succeeded in maintaining a Protestant government in Scotland, without either condemning or releasing her fellow sovereign. Each group assimilated into the dominant English, Protestant, commercial, and political culture, albeit with local variations. The English and the Germans brought along multiple Protestant denominations. In 1764, Voltaire successfully intervened and secured the release of Claude Chamont for the crime of attending Protestant services. This centralising and sharing of resources was previously unknown within the Protestant churches in Scotland, but later became the norm. Situated around the town of St Andrews are cobblestone markings denoting where Protestant martyrs were burnt at the stake. The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland excluded most of Ulster's population from having any Civil power on religious grounds. For this reason, up until the 19th century, there was considerable disharmony between Dissenters and the ruling Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. This table summarizes the classical views of three Protestant beliefs about salvation. Traditionally fans of rivals Rangers came from Scottish or Northern Irish Protestant backgrounds and support British Unionism. A Protestant martyr, his life and death are recorded in John Foxe's famous book of martyrs. Oneness Pentecostalism subscribes to the common Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura. At the time of the Act of Union in 1800, the Protestant community was divided over whether to support the Act. Political Unionism crystallised around the Protestant areas in the northern part of Ireland. Most of them settled in Illinois with financial and physical aid of the American Protestant Society, headquartered in New York City. Show More Sentences Another missionary from Scotland, William Hepburn Hewitson, took on Protestant ministerial activities in Madeira. Thus, Protestant bibles do not include the books within the Old Testament but have often included them in a separate section. Thus the respect accorded to apocryphal books varied between Protestant denominations. The Protestant Reformation dragged the kingdom ever more deeply into the mire of religiously charged wars. Since 1795 Rotterdam has hosted the chief congregation of the liberal Protestant brotherhood of Remonstrants. In line with Protestant procedure of that time, all churches were converted to Protestant worship. The Protestant King of the Netherlands, William I rapidly started the industrialisation of the southern parts of the Kingdom. It was during this time that the Inquisitions and Protestant reformations took place. When the US took over Louisiana, Americans from the Protestant South entered the territory and began to impose their norms. To many secular rulers the Protestant reformation was a welcome opportunity to expand their wealth and influence. While officers of the reorganised force were Protestant, membership of the other ranks was now made available to members of all denominations. The region has been strongly Protestant since the time of the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant reformer John Calvin admired Gregory and declared in his Institutes that Gregory was the last good pope. Together, these member churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany gather a substantial part of the Protestant population in Germany. Simultaneously, the Protestant Reformation set up Protestant churches primarily in Germany, Scandinavia and England. Simultaneously, the Protestant Reformation under German Martin Luther questioned Papal authority. The dominant intellectual currents of the Enlightenment promoted rationalism, and most Protestant leaders preached a sort of deism. The early modern period saw religious conflict resulting from the Reformation and the introduction of Protestant state churches in each country. The Protestant population was given two years to settle affairs before leaving the city. Their successor, Elizabeth I, consolidated the new and increasingly Protestant Church of England. Show More Sentences On 30 June 1688, a group of seven Protestant nobles invited the Prince of Orange to come to England with an army. Article 2 provided for the succession of the House of Hanover, and for Protestant succession as set out in the English Act of Settlement. During the 16th century, Scotland underwent a Protestant Reformation that created a predominately Calvinist national kirk. Churches of the Protestant Reformation, however, rejected prayer to the saints, largely on the basis of the sole mediatorship of Christ. Adventist, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal and other Protestant confessions arose in the following centuries. Burnet was a bishop chronicling how England became Protestant, and his use of the term is invariably pejorative. Northumberland was furiously ambitious, and aimed to secure Protestant uniformity while making himself rich with land and money in the process. Northumberland married Jane to his youngest son Guildford Dudley, allowing himself to get the most out of a necessary Protestant succession. Protestant Reformers still faced persecution, particularly over objections to Henry's annulment. Soon after, Elizabeth reintroduced the Protestant faith but in a more moderate manner. Edward was a precocious child who had been brought up as a Protestant, but was initially of little account politically. At the same time, she had observed the turmoil brought about by Edward's introduction of radical Protestant reforms. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels. One of her first actions as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. The defeat of the armada was a potent propaganda victory, both for Elizabeth and for Protestant England. When the Protestant Henry IV inherited the French throne in 1589, Elizabeth sent him military support. Elizabeth was praised as a heroine of the Protestant cause and the ruler of a golden age. The picture of Elizabeth painted by her Protestant admirers of the early 17th century has proved lasting and influential. There is no universal agreement on the exact or approximate date the Protestant Reformation ended. The Protestant Ascendancy did not however benefit them much, as the English espoused the Anglican Church. Show More Sentences Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne. He took part in court life and became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I because of his efforts at increasing the Protestant Church in Ireland. With the encouragement of his Protestant advisers, James summoned the English Parliament in 1624 so that he could request subsidies for a war. In the Kingdom of Scotland the Protestant Reformation was a popular movement led by John Knox. James VI remained Protestant, taking care to maintain his hopes of succession to the English throne. The rising featured widespread assaults on the Protestant communities in Ireland, sometimes culminating in massacres. Some even sought to confer the Crown on the Protestant Duke of Monmouth, the eldest of Charles's illegitimate children. They were also to maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant Reformed faith established by law. The Williamite victory in Ireland is still commemorated by the Orange Order for preserving British and Protestant dominance in the country. They believed the Duke, if allowed to inherit the throne, would endanger the Protestant religion, liberty, and property. The Whigs primarily advocated the supremacy of Parliament, while calling for the toleration for Protestant dissenters. He was replaced by his eldest, Protestant daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange. James's Jesuit confessor, Edward Petre, was a particular object of Protestant ire. The House of Commons, with a Whig majority, quickly resolved that the throne was vacant, and that it was safer if the ruler was Protestant. William encouraged the passage of the Toleration Act 1689, which guaranteed religious toleration to Protestant nonconformists. In Scotland the main Protestant body is the Church of Scotland which is Presbyterian. In election after election, Protestant ministers rallied their congregations to the Liberal ticket. They invited William of Orange, a Protestant who had married Mary, daughter of James II and Anne Hyde to invade England and claim the throne. Most are held by Protestant fraternities such as the Orange Order, and Ulster loyalist marching bands. Wellesley was born in Dublin, belonging to the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. Show More Sentences She fled to England, and the Crown went to her infant son James VI, who was brought up as a Protestant. Those who surrendered were also expected to follow English law and customs, speak English, and convert to the Protestant Anglican Church. In 1552 Protestant princes, in alliance with Henry II of France, rebelled again, which caused Charles to retreat to the Netherlands. Some Protestant denominations do have a worldwide scope and distribution of membership, while others are confined to a single country. The German word evangelisch means Protestant, and is different from the German evangelikal, which refers to churches shaped by Evangelicalism. The English word evangelical usually refers to Evangelical Protestant churches, and therefore not to Protestantism as a whole. Initially, Protestant became a general term to mean any adherent to the Reformation movement in Germany and was taken up by Lutherans. The desire was for the Church of England to resemble more closely the Protestant churches of Europe, especially Geneva. It affected pietistic Protestant denominations and had a strong element of social activism. In 1904, a Protestant revival in Wales had tremendous impact on the local population. Some Protestant denominations are less accepting of other denominations, and the basic orthodoxy of some is questioned by most of the others. United and uniting churches are churches formed from the merger or other form of union of two or more different Protestant denominations. Around the world, each united or uniting church comprises a different mix of predecessor Protestant denominations. The chart below shows the mutual relations and historical origins of the main Protestant denominational families, or their parts. Baptist churches are widely considered to be Protestant churches, though some Baptists disavow this identity. There are many other Protestant denominations that do not fit neatly into the mentioned branches, and are far smaller in membership. Nonconforming Protestants along with the Protestant refugees from continental Europe were the primary founders of the United States of America. Protestant churches reject the idea of a celibate priesthood and thus allow their clergy to marry. All major Protestant churches were represented in the First and Second Continental Congresses. In contrast, the Evangelical wing of Anglicanism is closer to Protestant thinking. Show More Sentences Several provinces of the Anglican Communion in Asia have merged with Protestant churches. Accepting women Protestant ministers would also make unity with the See of Rome more difficult. Under Henry's son, King Edward VI, the Church of England became more influenced by the European Protestant movement. A further penalty of ten pounds a month was inflicted on anyone keeping a schoolmaster who did not attend the Protestant service. While Charles remained firmly Protestant, he was personally drawn towards a consciously 'High Church' Anglicanism. The Church of England had not yet appointed a United States bishop to what would become the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. The worship resembles the church services of other Protestant denominations, although in most cases does not include any Eucharist service. As late as the 1980s, imprisonment and exile were still employed to destroy the remaining Protestant churches. In the mainstream of the Protestant Reformation there is the Biblical Unitarian Movement. More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. He concluded that the idea that medieval revels were pagan in origin is a legacy of the Protestant Reformation. Some schools remain, as private schools catering largely for Protestant students. Later, the main duty of universities in most Protestant countries was the training of future civil servants. Nearly a century later, the university was at the centre of a Protestant schism. The foreign powers largely distanced themselves from the plotters, calling them atheists and Protestant heretics. Digby, the first to mount the scaffold, asked the spectators for forgiveness, and refused the attentions of a Protestant clergyman. The Protestant Reformation and rise of modernity in the early 16th century entailed the start of a series of changes in the Corpus Christianum. Religious disagreements between various leading figures led to the emergence of rival Protestant churches. Subsequent Protestant denominations generally trace their roots back to the initial reforming movements. The effort sought to prevent further damage to the Church and her faithful at the hands of the newly formed Protestant denominations. Show More Sentences The early modern period was initiated by the Protestant Reformation and the collapse of the unity of the medieval Western Church. What was added to Chaucer often helped represent him favourably to Protestant England. The myth of the Protestant Chaucer continues to have a lasting impact on a large body of Chaucerian scholarship. As with the Chaucer editions, it was critically significant to English Protestant identity and included Chaucer in its project. Later that year, he joined Sir John Norris in the Battle of Zutphen, fighting for the Protestant cause against the Spanish. In 1656 Marvell and Dutton travelled to France, to visit the Protestant Academy of Saumur. A source has interpreted him as broadly Protestant, if not always easy to locate in a more precise religious category. John Keats died in Rome on 23 February 1821 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. Shelley's ashes were interred in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome, near an ancient pyramid in the city walls. Wells's parents had a turbulent marriage, owing primarily to his mother being a Protestant and his father a freethinker. Stuart was the son of James II, who had been deposed in 1688 and replaced by his Protestant relations. Francis I of France sought allies from all quarters, including with German Protestant princes and Muslims. The growth of the system of indulgences later was a catalyst for the Protestant Reformation in the early 16th century. It is, however, generally discouraged in some Protestant branches such as Calvinism, where the practice is considered a form of idolatry. The Church of Denmark took over education after the Protestant Reformation. In addition, the Protestant population was more prominent in Ulster, with a majority in four counties. Significant Protestant denominations are the Presbyterian Church and Methodist Church. Opposite but comparatively high levels are seen in the predominantly Protestant east Belfast. These settlers, who had a British Protestant identity, would form the ruling class of future British administrations in Ireland. A new Plantation was started, made up of Protestant settlers from Scotland and England. Show More Sentences The rising was marked by widespread assaults on the British Protestant communities in Ireland, sometimes culminating in massacres. The new English Protestant ruling class was known as the Protestant Ascendancy. Northern Ireland had a majority Protestant population and opted out as expected. Thomas Davis, a prominent Protestant Irish nationalist who founded the Young Ireland movement, identified the Irish as a Celtic nation. With the Scottish Reformation, Scotland was declared Protestant, and allied itself with Protestant England instead. It was an age of expansion and exploration abroad, while at home the Protestant Reformation became entrenched in the national mindset. Following her deposition in 1567, her infant son James VI was raised as a Protestant. The Protestant position, however, would come to incorporate doctrinal changes such as sola scriptura and sola fide. The Protestant reformers were unanimous in agreement and this understanding of prophecy furnished importance to their deeds. Beginning in Germany and Switzerland in the 16th century, the Radical Reformation gave birth to many radical Protestant groups throughout Europe. The German Prince Philip of Hesse saw potential in creating an alliance between Zwingli and Luther, seeing strength in a united Protestant front. There had been a series of such dispossessions since the beginning of Elizabeth's reign involving many clergy, particularly those of vehement Protestant sympathies. His embracement of Popery beginning to make a noise, he decoyed several of the most eminent Protestant clergymen in France to give assurances of the contrary. A modern Protestant worship band leading a contemporary worship session. In the same year, 1560, John Knox realised his goal of seeing Scotland become a Protestant nation and the Scottish parliament revoke papal authority in Scotland. In 1880, a radical young Protestant landowner, Charles Stewart Parnell became chairman, and in the 1880 general election, the League won 63 seats. Unitarianism is sometimes considered Protestant due to its origins in the Reformation and strong cooperation with other Protestants since the 16th century. The majority of the Protestant colonists throughout Ireland but particularly in Ulster, fought on the Williamite side in the war against the Jacobites. The English succession was provided for by the English Act of Settlement 1701, which ensured that the monarch of England would be a Protestant member of the House of Hanover. Irreligion in Germany is strongest in the former East Germany, which used to be predominantly Protestant before state atheism, and major metropolitan areas. Show More Sentences Members of mainline Protestant denominations have played leadership roles in many aspects of American life, including politics, business, science, the arts, and education. The survivors, including chaplain John Knox, were condemned to be galley slaves, helping to create resentment of the French and martyrs for the Protestant cause. The humanist concern with widening education was shared by the Protestant reformers, with a desire for a godly people replacing the aim of having educated citizens. Then in 1558 the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne, survived the 1570 bull Regnans in Excelsis, and all but one of the following monarchs were Anglican. Another consequence of the Protestant understanding of man is that the believers, in gratitude for their election and redemption in Christ, are to follow God's commandments. The Anabaptist tradition was largely ostracized by the other Protestant parties at the time, but has achieved a measure of affirmation in more recent history. Following the Treaty of Berwick, support from England finally arrived and by the end of March, a significant English army joined the Scottish Protestant forces. In other historical Protestant strongholds such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia and Hungary, it remains one of the most popular religions. In 1540, Henry married for the fourth time to the daughter of a Protestant German duke, Anne of Cleves, thus forming an alliance with the Protestant German states. Henry was reluctant to marry again, especially to a Protestant, but he was persuaded when the court painter Hans Holbein the Younger showed him a flattering portrait of her. Meanwhile, Edward was brought up as a strict and devout Protestant by numerous tutors, including Bishop Richard Cox, John Belmain, and Sir John Cheke. According to some, Russia is another country to see a Protestant revival. A firebomb killed an elderly Protestant widow, Matilda Gould. Towards the end of the 18th century the entirely Protestant Irish Parliament attained a greater degree of independence from the British Parliament than it had previously held. The Church of England affirms the Protestant Reformation principle that scripture contains all things necessary to salvation and is the final arbiter in doctrinal matters. The low church party is more Protestant in both ceremony and theology. Because of the lack of police reaction to the attacks, nationalists saw the RUC, almost wholly Protestant, as backing the loyalists and allowing the attacks to occur. The parades are held to commemorate William of Orange's victory in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, which secured the Protestant Ascendancy and British rule in Ireland. There was perennial trouble from Border Reivers, but Elizabeth was inclined to forgive even their depredations rather than pick a quarrel with her Protestant neighbour. For example, the Act of Uniformity 1549 prescribed Protestant rites for church services, such as the use of Thomas Cranmer's new Book of Common Prayer. Show More Sentences Numerous other Protestant denominations have a presence in Aberdeen. It rejoices in the inheritance of the apostolic faith and loyally accepts the fundamental principles of the historic creeds and of the Protestant Reformation. James was taken to Stirling Castle to be raised as a Protestant. On 29 July 1565 when Mary married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, some of the Protestant nobles, including James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, rose up in rebellion. Modern Baptist churches trace their history to the English Separatist movement in the century after the rise of the original Protestant denominations. The growth of secular authority was further aided by the decline of the papacy with the Western Schism and the coming of the Protestant Reformation. Clarke opened Bulgaria's first Protestant primary school for boys in Plovdiv in 1860, followed three years later by a primary school for girls in Stara Zagora. Rather than as a brave defender of the Protestant nations against Spain and the Habsburgs, she is more often regarded as cautious in her foreign policies. Religion was not a factor, since both sides were Protestant. By 1848, the American Protestant Society raised money and sent the Rev. In 1618, beginning with the Defenestration of Prague, Austria and the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, embarked on a campaign against the Protestant Union and Bohemia. In 1345, an alleged Eucharistic miracle in the Kalverstraat rendered the city an important place of pilgrimage until the adoption of the Protestant faith. Other Protestant movements grew up along lines of mysticism or humanism, sometimes breaking from Rome or from the Protestants, or forming outside of the churches. The growth of tensions between the EIC and the local religious and cultural groups grew in the 19th century as the Protestant revival grew in Great Britain. Repulsing the Spanish naval force may have given heart to the Protestant cause across Europe and the belief that God was behind the Protestant cause. In accordance with the religious beliefs of most of the Scottish ruling class, James was brought up as a member of the Protestant Church of Scotland. It was only in 1700 that modern bilingual Bibles appeared in which the Authorized Version was compared with counterpart Dutch and French Protestant vernacular Bibles. He supported high church ecclesiastics, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, and failed to aid Protestant forces successfully during the Thirty Years' War. The church printed Bibles and Prayer Books in Gaelic, and some churches, and some Protestant clergymen like William King of Dublin, held services in the language. Charles was crowned on 2 February 1626 at Westminster Abbey, but without his wife at his side because she refused to participate in a Protestant religious ceremony. Show More Sentences Reformers were given hope by the accession, in England, of the Protestant Queen Elizabeth in 1558, which created a confessional frontier in Great Britain. Martin Bucer was a prominent Protestant reformer in the region. It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects. He became an Independent Puritan after undergoing a religious conversion in the 1630s, taking a generally tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of his period. With the help of Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Cromwell persuaded the Protestant Royalist troops in Cork to change sides and fight with the Parliament. Grafton was an ardent Protestant and sanitized the earlier story. Protestant conspirators formulated the Rye House Plot, a plan to murder him and the Duke of York as they returned to London after horse races in Newmarket. Protestant politicians such as Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, Algernon Sydney, Lord William Russell and the Duke of Monmouth were implicated in the plot. By March 1566, Darnley had entered into a secret conspiracy with Protestant lords, including the nobles who had rebelled against Mary in the Chaseabout Raid. A distinguished linguist, philosopher and poet, he had trained in Paris and studied law at Poitiers, before moving to Geneva and developing an interest in Protestant theology. On 6 May, Mary and Bothwell returned to Edinburgh and on 15 May, at either Holyrood Palace or Holyrood Abbey, they were married according to Protestant rites. The Protestant movement of the 16th century occurred under the protection of the Electorate of Saxony, an independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire. The stock of Welsh surnames is very small, which is partly attributable to the reduction in the variety of baptismal names after the Protestant Reformation. The latter church was a result of union between the Methodist Protestant Church and the northern and southern factions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. When William arrived on 5 November 1688, many Protestant officers, including Churchill, defected and joined William, as did James's own daughter, Princess Anne. James's reign was unpopular with the Protestant majority in Britain. The numerous Protestant groups in the world, if taken all together, outnumber the Orthodox, but they differ theologically and do not form a single communion. Knox did not record when or how he was converted to the Protestant faith, but perhaps the key formative influences on Knox were Patrick Hamilton and George Wishart. British Protestant missionaries who travelled around the globe often in advance of soldiers and civil servants spread the Anglican Communion to all continents. He could not be made an official minister because he was a Protestant. Show More Sentences During the 16th century, Scotland underwent a Protestant Reformation that created a predominately Calvinist national kirk, which was strongly Presbyterian in outlook. While Rough was preaching in the parish church on the Protestant principle of the popular election of a pastor, he proposed Knox to the congregation for that office. In Hungary, the largest Protestant denomination is represented by Reformed Church in Hungary, which is a Calvinist strand, established in 1567, Debrecen. In early May 1593 several bills were posted about London threatening Protestant refugees from France and the Netherlands who had settled in the city. These two things would later lead to the Protestant Reformation. A strong Presbyterian following had developed, but the Church of Scotland did not agree with King Charles I's expectations of the Protestant religion. After the French king Louis XIV declared Protestantism illegal in 1685 in the Edict of Fontainebleau, an estimated 50,000 Protestant Huguenots fled to England. Systematic efforts to develop an alphabetic representation of Cantonese began with the arrival of Protestant missionaries in China early in the nineteenth century. It was meant to establish a loyal British Protestant colony in Ireland's most rebellious region and to sever Gaelic Ulster's links with Gaelic Scotland. These views were bound up in Protestant views of the Millennium, which some sects, such as the Fifth Monarchists predicted would arrive in England. Patrick's and Christ Church cathedrals be converted to Protestant. As for the Protestant towns, unity of belief was also far from standard. With the Protestant Reformation and the introduction of printing, a standard language was developed which was based on the educated Copenhagen dialect. They were Protestants and chose reliably Protestant Saxony over Silesia, a Hapsburg possession as religious tensions mounted in the years before the Thirty Years War. The term Protestant later acquired a broader sense, referring to a member of any Western church which subscribed to the main Protestant principles. The wars only concluded when Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, promising official toleration of the Protestant minority, but under highly restricted conditions. Both were the Protestant daughters of James VII and II by his first wife. With the Protestant Reformation in 1536, Danish also became the language of religion, which sparked a new interest in using Danish as a literary language. Inverness and the surrounding area has a majority Protestant population, with most locals belonging to either The Kirk or the Free Church of Scotland. Baptists collectively form the largest branch of Protestantism, and the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest individual Protestant denomination. Find more words! 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