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Religion: People
Important people in different religions
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Religious Studies
9th Grade
01/25/2010

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Wrote the autobiography "Confessions" about his conversion to Christianity
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St. Augustine
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Became Pope Alexander VI
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Rodrigo Borgia
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Established form of Protestantism in Switzerland (1536)
Wrote "Institutes of the Christian Religion"
Believed in the doctrine of predestination
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John Calvin
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Founder of Positivism
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Auguste Compte
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Founder of Christian Science
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Mary Barker Eddy
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Founder of the Quakers (Society of Friends)
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George Fox
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Founder of Buddhism
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Siddhartha Gautama
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Founder of Scientology
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L. Ron Hubbard
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Led Scottish Reformation
Established the Presbyterian Church in Scotland (1560)
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John Knox
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Made the Latin translation of the Vulgate Bible
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Jerome
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Founded the Jesuits
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Ignatius Loyola
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Posted his 95 theses on the door of a church in Wittenburg in 1517
Started the Reformation in Germany
Attacked the selling of indulgences and defied the authority of the pope and many Catholic doctrines
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Martin Luther
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Founder of Jainism
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Mahavira
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Founder of the Seventh Day Adventists
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William Miller
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Longest papal reign (32 years)
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Pius XI
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Founded the Jehovah's Witnesses
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C.T. Russell
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1st leader of the Mormons
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Joseph Smith
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2nd leader of the Mormons
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Brigham Young
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Founder of the Methodist religion
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John Wesley
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