Pope Leo X Diet Of Worms

In january 1521 pope leo x excommunicated luther.

Pope leo x diet of worms. Normally this would have been followed by the imperial ban. As a result emperor charles v called the diet of worms as a court of inquisition and ordered luther to appear and either affirm or renounce his teachings. After he had been excommunicated by pope leo x martin luther was summoned by the holy roman emperor charles v to appear before the imperial diet at worms in 1521. Pope leo x had just issued the final ban on luther ending his allotted time for repentance on january 3 and the diet of worms opened with a papal brief requesting charles v to do his duty arrest luther and stamp out the lutheran heresy.

In fact the two papal representatives and in particular jerome aleander informed the germans that. Charles guaranteed luther s safe passage. On 16 april luther arrived in worms. Jeromee schurff wittenberg professor in canon law was to act as luther s lawyer before the diet.

The imperial diet of worms of 1521 was in many respects the culmination of the first phase of the luther s reformation. Pope leo x 1475 1521 from the house of medici had endorsed the french king francis i 1494 1547 in the electoral college. Excommunicated luther in january 1521. However in a dramatic encounter with imperial rulers and church theologians luther refused to recant.

Three months later luther was called to defend his beliefs before holy roman emperor charles v at the diet of worms where he was famously defiant. In 1520 pope leo x issued a papal bull against martin luther declaring him to be a heretic. Because of the confused political and religious situation of the time luther was called before the political. Woodcut of pope leo x.

Diet of worms meeting of the diet assembly of the holy roman empire held at worms germany in 1521 made famous by martin luther s appearance before it to respond to charges of heresy. Pope leo x published the bull exsurge domine rise up o lord. In 1517 luther s protest had begun with his rejections of certain aspects of the medieval doctrine of penance and indulgences in the 95 theses. The diet of worms 1521 german.

Charles v 1500 1558 had ascended to the habsburg throne as designated successor to the holy roman empire at the tender age of 19 just two years before the 1521 diet of worms. This one is most memorable for the edict of worms wormser edikt. The main events of the diet of worms relating to luther took place from 16 to 18 april 1521. But the imperial potentates and the noble classes convinced king charles v to interrogate luther at the imperial diet.

There he was given an opportunity to renounce his ideas. An imperial diet was a formal deliberative assembly of the whole empire.