The Protestant Reformation that started in 1517 in Europe advanced onward with the completion of the American Revolution. Freedom of religion in America allowed new churches to be started here ...

Although Reformation had been under way in Germany since 1517, in breaking with Rome Henry VIII did not intend to embrace Protestantism. All Henry sought was to end the power of the pope in his ...

During Luther's lifetime Wittenberg was the home and intellectual centre of the reformation movement of which the sovereign was a reliable protector, although only active in the background.

Devotion to traditional religion was intense in Wales in the half century before the Protestant Reformation. There was a great devotion to the cult of the Virgin Mary. Fine town churches were ...