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The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren (Czech: Moravská církev or Moravští bratři), formally the Unitas Fratrum (Latin: "Unity of the Brethren"), [3] [4] [5] is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the Unity of the Brethren (Czech: Jednota ...
The remaining Hussites continued to operate outside Roman Catholicism and, within fifty years of Hus's death, had become independently organized as the 'Bohemian Brethren' or Unity of the Brethren. This group maintained Hussite theology (which would later lean towards Lutheran teachings), while maintaining the historic episcopate , even during ...
Brethren is a name adopted by a wide range of mainly Christian religious groups throughout history. ... Unitas Fratrum, and Bohemian Brethren, ...
The first Brethren's congregation was founded in Kunvald, Bohemia, in 1457. After the expulsions of the Protestants from Czech lands during the 17th and 18th centuries, some families from Moravia, specifically from Fulnek and adjacent area, who preserved the traditions of the old Bohemian brethren, found refuge in Saxony.
Unity of the Brethren Baptists, a Baptist denomination in the Czech Republic; Minor Party (Unity of the Brethren), a Christian group in Bohemia that split from the Unity of the Brethren during the 1490s; Moravian Church or Unitas Fratrum, a Protestant denomination dating to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century
The oldest hymn in the Moravian Hymn Book (1960) celebrates the unity and glory of the church: it is number 356, ‘Come, let us all with gladness raise / A joyous song of thanks and praise’ and is a translation of one originally written for the Synod of Lhota in 1467, at which the Bohemian Brethren decided to establish their own priesthood. [7
Jan Hus at the stake The spread of reformation movements in 16th-century Europe (Bohemian Reformation in orange). The Bohemian Reformation (also known as the Czech Reformation [1] or Hussite Reformation), preceding the Reformation of the 16th century, was a Christian movement in the late medieval and early modern Kingdom and Crown of Bohemia (mostly what is now present-day Czech Republic ...
The Czech lands (or the Lands of the Bohemian Crown) now form the Czech Republic. Fridericus de Silvester (1286) Berthramus dictus de Czweck (1292), preceptor Niemiec, Sławii i Morawii, w 1294; Bernhard von Eberstein (1291), w 1295