I came to my faith by the scriptures, not by protesting "Catholicism". I had no idea what Catholicism was until I studied it for years. And that was well after I became a Christian. One can hardly protest something one doesn't know exists. And one can hardly be a "protestant" or a "Catholic" by reading the Scriptures. Protestantism and Catholicism are philosophies that sheep dip themselves in Christian Ideas. They may have origins in Christianity; but, they've followed the master called "philosophy" for so long that the name of "Christ" becomes a rebuke and the scriptures a violation of their philosophy to be spurned and spat at when they contradict the other master. I am Christian because I follow the Lion of Judah, not the Philosophy of so and so - or worste, the philosophies of a bunch of so and so's that could scant agree with one another without flip-flopping every ten seconds like your "early fathers". Most of them you can seem to quote on any side of an argument. that isn't foundation. It's mud. And you're stuck in it.
So, No, I am not Protestant. Never have been and never will be. I am Christian. I listen to the Lion of Judah, You listen to your philosophers. The lion lives. Where are your philosophers. The lion saves. Your dead philosophers don't. Nor will your dead religion which they left you.
You want to compartmentalize me with a label so that you can be comfortable and blind. Too bad. I am Christian, not protestant nor Catholic. You've chosen your philosophy. I've chosen to shine the light on it so others can see the difference plainly. The light is a funny thing. Sleeping people who would rather stay asleep screech and pull the covers over themselves to hide from it. Those looking forward to the light awake themselves, throw the covers off and bask in the sonshine. People used to darkness will spend eternity in it. Don't know how that's a comfort; but, oddly to some it is...