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A-Z: General definitions: Counter-Reformation
Definition
Also known as the Catholic Revival or Catholic Revolution, this was a response by the Roman Catholic Church in Europe to the Protestant Reformation during the period from the Council of Trent (1545 - 1563) to the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648
Member of a worldwide Christian church which traces its origins from St. Peter, one of Jesus' original disciples. It has a continuous history from earliest Christianity.
1. Term for a worshipping community of Christians.
2. The building in which Christians traditionally meet for worship.
3. The worldwide community of Christian believers.
Christians whose faith and practice stems from the Reformation movement in the sixteenth century which resulted in new churches being created as an alternative to the Roman Catholic Church.
Term given to the movements of church reform which in the sixteenth century resulted in new Protestant churches being created as an alternative to the Roman Catholic Church.
A significant council of the Roman Catholic Church in response to the Protestant Reformation.
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