The Colloquy of Worms was the last colloquy

Colloquy (law)

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 in the 16th century on an imperial level, held in Worms

Worms, Germany

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 from September 11 to October 8, 1557. At the Diet of Augsburg

Diet of Augsburg

The Diet of Augsburg were the meetings of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire in the German city of Augsburg. There were many such sessions, but the three meetings during the Reformation and the ensuing religious wars between the Roman Catholic emperor Charles V and the Protestant...

 in 1555 it had been agreed that the dialog on controversial religious issues should be continued. A resolution was passed at Regensburg

Regensburg

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 in 1556, and the next colloquy took place in Worms in 1557. The Catholics Michael Helding, John Gropper

John Gropper

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, and Peter Canisius met with the Protestants Philip Melanchthon, Johannes Brenz

Johannes Brenz

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 and Erhard Schnepf

Erhard Schnepf

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. They first discussed the relation between the Bible and tradition. When Canisius alluded to differences among the Protestants themselves in their doctrine of original sin and justification, which they could not overcome, the meeting was dissolved.

Other participants present at this Colloquy included Julius von Pflug

Julius von Pflug

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, Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig

Kaspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig

Caspar Schwenkfeld von Ossig was a German theologian, writer, and preacher who became a Protestant Reformer and spiritualist, one of the earliest promoters of the Protestant Reformation in Silesia....

, Johannes Pistorius

Johann Pistorius the Elder

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, François Hotman

François Hotman

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, and Theodore Beza

Theodore Beza

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