when did the protestant reformation occur and who started it and which institution lost power because of this event

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Answer 1

Martin Luther (No, not King) is acknowledged to have kick-started the reformation of the Catholic Church in about 1517. He started by calling out on the pope's practice of indulgences--essentially prepaid fines for sin forgiveness--as the pop has no true control over purgatory, and the whole issue of sainthood as there is no basis for such in the Bible.

What started as these two criticisms bloomed to a list of ninety-five. The schism led to the formation of the Lutherans, Calvinists, and later The Church of England, or Anglicans.