Reformation Vocabulary

Reformer

• A person who tries to change something

• Power

Reformation

• A person who holds a belief that a religious authority

• A movement that challenged a changed the Catholic religion

Indulgences

• Eternal happiness

• A church paper that says that a person will not be punished after death for their sins

Excommunicate

• To say that someone can no longer be a member of a church

• A place of suffering after death

Protestant

• A reformer who protested against the Catholic Church

• A reformer who protestant against the Lutheran Church

Annul

• To announce that a marriage never existed

• A ceremony

Compromise

• The top religious leader

• An agreement where both sides give up something

Puritan

• An English Protestant who wanted to purify the Anglican Church

• To make clean

Calvinism

• The religious movement founded by Martin Luther

• The religious movement founded by John Calvin

Huguenot

• A French Calvinist

• A Irish Calvinist