Dec 15, 2021 · In response to Martin Luther's 95 Theses, as well as his other works, Pope Leo X sent a papal bull threatening him with excommunication in June 1520. Luther publicly burned the bull at Wittenberg on 10 December 1520 and was officially excommunicated in January 1521.

Feb 9, 2010 · In January 1521, Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther. 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...

Nov 23, 2016 · Based directly on statements in these two works, I summarize below how Luther was indisputably heterodox by 1520: judged by existing Catholic theological standards. 1. Separation of justification...

Feb 7, 2025 · Meanwhile, various efforts having been made in vain to bring him to a change of mind and heart, Luther was threatened with excommunication by Pope Leo X, in a letter of June 15, 1520, but Luther defiantly burned the letter in public.

On January 3, 1521, Luther was excommunicated. The severity of excommunication is not to be underestimated; it was customary that the political authorities would follow the lead of the church, which meant exile from the empire. Fortunately for Luther, a number of rulers already did not want to yield to Rome.

On this day, January 3rd, in 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X. [1] This act was in punishment for Luther’s refusal to recant his statements, including his 1517 Ninety Five Theses, in which Luther publicly protested how the Catholic Church held untrue doctrine, were corrupt, and abused their ...

Decet Romanum Pontificem (from Latin: "It Befits the Roman Pontiff"; 1521) is the papal bull that excommunicated the German theologian Martin Luther; its title comes from the first three Latin words of its text. [1]

Pope Leo’s bull, Exsurge Domine, condemning the teachings of Luther set a sixty day time limit during which Luther was required to make an act of obedience to the Pope. The time limit expired on November 27, 1520, after the bull had been posted on church doors in Meissen, Merseburg and Brandenburg.

Our dealing and proceeding against the pope is altogether excommunication, which is simply the public declaration that a person is disobedient to Christ's Word. Now we affirm in public, that the pope and his retinue believe not; therefore we conclude that he shall not be saved, but be damned. What is this, but to excommunicate him?

The excommunication of Martin Luther on January 3rd, 1521, was a watershed moment in the history of Christianity. It solidified Luther’s role as a leader of the Protestant Reformation and marked a definitive break between the Catholic Church and the growing Protestant movement.