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  2. Counter-Reformation - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Reformation: Savonarola to Ignatius Loyola: Reform in the Church, 1495–1540 (Fordham University Press, 1992) O'Malley, John W. Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000). Pollen, John Hungerford. The Counter-Reformation (2011) excerpt and text search

  3. Timeline of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Its rulings set the Counter-Reformation tone of Catholic Church for four centuries until the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). July 27, 1549: Francis Xavier reaches Japan and goes ashore at Kagoshima, August 15. 1551: First diocese of Brazil is created with a Portuguese appointed bishop reaching Bahia, Brazil, a year later.

  4. Reformation - Wikipedia

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    The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

  5. History of the papacy - Wikipedia

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    The pontificate of Pope Sixtus V (1585–1590) opened up the final stage of the Catholic Reformation, characteristic of the Baroque age of the early seventeenth century, shifting away from compelling to attracting. His reign focused on rebuilding Rome as a great European capital and Baroque city, a visual symbol for the Catholic Church.

  6. European wars of religion - Wikipedia

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    The Reformation came to Britain and Ireland with King Henry VIII of England's breach with the Roman Catholic Church in 1533 [40]. At this time there were only a limited number of Protestants among the general population, and these were mostly living in the towns of the South and the East of England.

  7. Christianity in the 16th century - Wikipedia

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    The Counter-Reformation, or Catholic Reformation, was the response of the Catholic Church to the Protestant Reformation. The essence of the Counter-Reformation was a renewed conviction in traditional practices and the upholding of Catholic doctrine as the source of ecclesiastic and moral reform, and the answer to halting the spread of ...

  8. Catholic–Protestant relations - Wikipedia

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    Catholic–Protestant relations refers to the social, political and theological relations and dialogue between Catholic Christians and Protestant Christians.. This relationship began in the 16th century with the beginning of the Reformation and thereby Protestantism.

  9. Reformation Papacy - Wikipedia

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    The pontificate of Pope Sixtus V (1585–1590) opened up the final stage of the Catholic Reformation characteristic of the Baroque age of the early seventeenth century, shifting away from compelling to attracting. His reign focused on rebuilding Rome as a great European capital and Baroque city, a visual symbol for the Catholic Church.