Remember to include the unholy father of these re-formed religions, Henry VIII who, in protest against the authority of the holy catholic apostolic church, formed his own. Others soon followed; what is the count up to now ?
There are more than 1200 varities of the RCC in South America alone.
Is that what you mean?
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I like that!
It has a nice ring to it...
Pope Stephen VI (896897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (10321044, 1045, 10471048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (12941303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (13781389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (14921503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (15131521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (15231534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
Henry was hardly the 'father' of any reform, as he was late getting started and was only interested in getting back at the Pope for his non-annulments. No interest in scriptural truth, just secular power. In that way he was a mirror image of the Pope, but a 'father' of reform? I guess Catholics will call anyone father.