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  • Part 16—9th-16th century C.E.—A Religion Badly in Need of Reform
    Awake!—1989 | August 22
    • Called the Augsburg Confession, it amounted to a birth announcement of Protestantism’s first church.f

  • Part 16—9th-16th century C.E.—A Religion Badly in Need of Reform
    Awake!—1989 | August 22
    • f Significantly, the term “Protestant” was first applied at the 1529 Diet of Speyer to followers of Luther, who protested a ruling granting greater religious freedom to Catholics than to them.

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