Synod of Homberg

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The Synod of Homberg consisted of the clergy, the nobility, and the representatives of cities and was held on October 20–22, 1526. The

Zwinglian
Reformation.

Before

Diet of Speyer
on August 27, 1526, allowed every sovereign authority, pending the meeting of a council, to decide matters of faith for itself and its province, recognizing its accountability to God and the emperor in limited terms; a basis for the application of territorialism in favor of the reformation.

Landgrave

François Lambert of Avignon
had put forth 158 articles of debate (paradoxa), which had already been posted on the church doors.

After the opening speech by the chancellor,

, came forward and took the floor the following morning. He contested the landgrave's authority to hold a synod, to undertake ecclesiastical changes, and to pass any measures in the affairs of the Christian faith, since this was supposed to be the privilege of the pope, the bishops, and the Church.

When the chancellor urged the duty of the civil authorities to abolish abuses and idolatry, Ferber still contested and unsuccessfully attacked the prince's character for laying hands on the goods of the church. He did not attempt to refute the proffered articles of debate. He soon afterward left Hesse, and issued at Cologne Assertiones trecentat ac viginti adversus Fr. Lamberti paradoxa impia, and subsequently Assertiones aliœ.

On the following day (Tuesday, October 23), when the synod was on the point of closing, Master

Jesus Christ, by the Angelical salutation in the first chapter of Luke
.

References

  • Philip Schaff History of the Christian Church, Volume VII, 1882
  • Public Domain Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1909). "Homberg Synod and Church Order of 1526".
    New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
    . Vol. 5 (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls. pp. 337–339.

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