Hussite

Grew from

Roman Catholic

From

1415 AD

Origin

Bohemia

Confession

The Four Articles of Prague 1420 AD

Formed around Jan Hus, rector of the university at Prague, who preached against indulgences and clerical wealth and was burned at the Council of Constance in 1415 despite a safe-conduct. Bohemia rose in revolt and defeated five crusades sent against it, winning a settlement that let a reformed Bohemian church stand for two centuries.

What marks it out

Communion in both kinds — bread and cup to the laity, not the cup to priests alone. The chalice became the movement's emblem and gave the majority party its name, Utraquist. Preaching in Czech, and the Four Articles of Prague as the terms on which Bohemia would settle.

Bodies that grew from it

• Moravian (1722 AD)

Figures

• Jan Hus c. 1372–1415

  Burned at Constance under a safe-conduct

Alongside it

Also from Roman Catholic.

• Waldensian (1173 AD)
• Lutheran (1517 AD)
• Anglican (1534 AD)
• Reformed / Presbyterian (1541 AD)
• Eastern Catholic churches (1596 AD)

In the record

1. 1414–1418 AD Council

   Council of Constance

   Ended the Western Schism and burned Jan Hus, who had come under an imperial safe-conduct.

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