The Protestant Reformation was a major 16th century religious and political movement that sought to reform the Catholic Church and challenge its authority. It began in Germany in 1517, when Martin Luther, a German monk, posted his Ninety-Five Theses on the door of a church in W
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, 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 hierarchy. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the beginning of Protestantism. It is considered one of the events that signified the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern period in Europe.