| Church History Timeline The following is a very brief church history timeline cited from the website www.ourcatholicfaith.org. 33 A.D.: The Catholic Church
(moved to Rome by Peter after he fled Jerusalem) was founded by God-made-man,
Jesus Christ. He said: "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will
build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it...
Feed my lambs; take care of My sheep, feed my sheep" (Matt
16:18-19; John
21:15-18). He also said: "He who is not with Me is against Me,
and he who gathers not with me scatters" (Matt12:30).
827: Eastern Schism began
by Photius of Constantinople. The primary difference in Faith at the heart
of the schism was the argument over the addition of the filioque statement
(Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, not just the Father)
to the creed. This schism eventually healed. 1400 1500 1521: Anabaptist first appeared in Zwickau, in the present kingdom of Saxony. Initially, they were primarily against infant baptism. 1525: Schwenkfeldians were founded by Kaspar of Schwenkfeld, aulic councillor of Duke Frederick of Liegnitz and canon. At first he associated himself with Luther, but later opposed the latter in his Christology, as well as in his conception of the Eucharist, and his doctrine of justification. 1531: The Socinians and other Anti-Trinitarians attacked the fundamental doctrine of the Blessed Trinity. Chief founder of Anti-Trinitarians was Laelius Socinus, teacher of jurisprudence at Siena, and his nephew, Faustus Socinus. 1536: Mennonites founded by Menno Simons, a former Catholic priest and later an Anabaptist elder. They deny infant baptism and the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. 1534: Church of England (Anglicanism) was founded by King Henry VIII 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. 1560: The Presbyterian denomination was begun by John Knox who was dissatisfied with Anglicanism. 1600 1620: The Swiss Mennonites split into Amish or Upland Mennonites and Lowland Mennonites. 1671: Quakers were founded by John George Fox of Drayton in Leicestershire. He favored a visionary spiritualism, and found in the soul of each man a portion of the Divine intelligence. All are allowed to preach, according as the spirit incites them. 1700 1774: The Unitarians were founded by Theophilus Lindley in London. 1784: Episcopalian denomination was begun by Samuel Seabury who was dissatisfied with Presbyterianism. 1787: The founder of The Salvation Army is William Booth, who quit the Anglicans, and then the Methodists, and set up his own version of Christianity. 1800 1872: The Jehovah's Witness Church was developed by Charles Russell. 1879: Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy began the Christian Scientist religion basing it upon an outright denial of Original Sin and its effects. 1896: Ballinger Booth, the son of William Booth, quit The Salvation Army and started his own church. The Seventh-Day Adventists, the Church of Christ, The Church of the Nazarene,
or any of the various Pentecostal Churches, etc. are also among the hundreds
of new churches founded by men within the past 150 years or so.
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