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Jan 3, 1521:
Martin Luther excommunicated
On January 3, 1521, Pope Leo X issues the papal bull Decet
Romanum Pontificem, which excommunicates Martin Luther from the
Catholic Church.
Martin Luther, the chief catalyst of Protestantism, was a
professor of biblical interpretation at the University of
Wittenberg in Germany when he drew up his 95 theses condemning
the Catholic Church for its corrupt practice of selling
indulgences, or the forgiveness of sins. He followed up the
revolutionary work with equally controversial and groundbreaking
theological works, and his fiery words set off religious
reformers all across Europe.
In January 1521, Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther. Three months
later, Luther was called to defend his beliefs before Holy Roman
Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms, where he was famously
defiant. For his refusal to recant his writings, the emperor
declared him an outlaw and a heretic. Luther was protected by
powerful German princes, however, and by his death in 1546, the
course of Western civilization had been significantly altered.
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