Epic Study, Session 14
CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR PROTESTANT GROUPS
Group
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Date Founded
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Founder(s)
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Lutheran
|
1517
|
Martin Luther
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Anabaptists
|
1521
|
Nicholas Storch, Thomas Münzer, John Denk, Baithasar Hubmaier, Felix Manz, Conrad .Grebel
|
Anglican
|
1534
|
Henry VIII
|
Calvinist
|
1536
|
John Calvin
|
Mennonites
|
1536
|
Menno Simons
|
Presbyterian
|
1560
|
John Knox
|
Congregationalist
|
1582
|
Robert Brown
|
Baptist
|
1605
|
John Smyth
|
Dutch Reformed
|
1628
|
Michaelis Jones
|
Methodist
|
1744
|
John & Charles. Wesley
|
Unitarian
|
1774
|
Theophilus Lindley .
|
Mormonism*
|
1829
|
Joseph Smith
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Seventh-day Adventism
|
1860
|
William Miller, Hiram Edson,
Joseph Bates, Ellen Gould White
|
Salvation Army
|
1865
|
William Booth
|
Jehovah's Witnesses*
|
1879
|
Charles Taze Russell
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Christian Scientist
|
1879
|
Mary Baker Eddy
|
Pentecostal
|
1900
|
Charles Parham, William Seymour
|
Fundamentalism
|
1909
|
Various
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*Theologically, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) and the Jehovah’s Witnesses are not Christian and therefore not truly Protestant Groups.