The English Protestant exiles in Frankfurt divide…
1554 CE
The English Protestant exiles in Frankfurt divide into Knoxians and Coxians.
John Knox begins to justify resistance to faithless rulers who attack their dutiful subjects, while serving as minister to refugees in Frankfurt from 1553.
The exiled English reformer John Foxe, who moves in the autumn of this year to Frankfurt, also serves as a preacher for the English church ministering to refugees in the city: here he is unwillingly drawn into a bitter theological controversy.
One faction favors the church polity and liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer while the other advocates Reformed models promoted by Calvin's Genevan church.
The latter group, led by John Knox, is supported by Foxe; the former is led by Richard Cox.