The progressive internal decay of the Polish…

The progressive internal decay of the Polish Church, in a situation analogous with that of other European countries, has created conditions favorable for the dissemination of the Reformation ideas and currents.

For example, there is a chasm between the lower clergy and the nobility-based Church hierarchy, which is quite laicized and preoccupied with temporal issues, such as power and wealth, often corrupt.

The middle nobility, which has already been exposed to the Hussite reformist persuasion, increasingly looks at the Church's many privileges with envy and hostility.

Sigismund I quickly reactsagainst the "religious novelties", issuing his first related edict in 1520, banning any promotion of the Lutheran ideology, or even foreign trips to the Lutheran centers.