This Week in Christian History: Elizabeth I Crowned, Pope Returns to Rome, Catechism Published

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

Heidelberg Catechism Published - January 19, 1563

The Heidelberg Catechism, an influential Protestant confessional document from 1563.
The Heidelberg Catechism, an influential Protestant confessional document from 1563. | (Photo: Public Domain)

This week marks the anniversary of when the Heidelberg Catechism was published, thus giving German Protestants a major Christian educational resource.

Created at the request of German Elector Frederick III of the Palatinate, the Heidelberg Catechism has remained popular among many Protestant churches.

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"A second and third German edition, each with some small additions, as well as a Latin translation were published in Heidelberg in the same year [1563]," explained the United Reformed Churches in North America.

"The Catechism has been translated into all the European and many Asiatic and African languages and is the most widely used and most warmly praised catechism of the Reformation period."

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