HOW OLD ARE THE PROTESTANT CHURCHES?
The Lutheran Church was founded in the year 1517 by Martin Luther, a former priest of the Roman Catholic Church. The Church of England (Anglicanism) was founded by King Henry VIII in 1534 when he threw off the authority of the Pope and proclaimed himself the head of the Church in England, because the Pope refused to declare invalid his marriage with Queen Catherine. The Presbyterian denomination was begun in 1560 by John Knox who was dissatisfied with Anglicanism. The Episcopalian denomination was begun in 1784 by Samuel Seabury who was dissatisfied with Presbyterianism. The Baptist church was launched by John Smyth in Amsterdam, Holland in the year 1606. The Methodist church was launched by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744. The Unitarians were founded by Theophilus Lindley in London, in 1774. The Jehovah’s Witness Church was developed in 1872 by Charles Russell. The founder of The Salvation Army is William Booth, who quit the Anglicans, and then the Methodists, and set up hi
