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Menno Simons
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Key facts
- Church
- Mennonites
- Born
- 1496, Witmarsum , Friesland , Holy Roman Empire
- Died
- ( 1561-01-31 ) 31 January 1561 (aged 64 or 65), Wüstenfelde , Duchy of Holstein , Holy Roman Empire
- Buried
- Bad Oldesloe
- Denomination
- Catholic (until 1536), Anabaptist (from 1536)
- Spouse
- Geertruydt Jansdochter
- Children
- Two daughters, one son
- Profession
- Catholic priest (until 1536), Anabaptist minister and author (from 1536)
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Seventeen Provinces
- Place of birth
- Witmarsum
- Place of death
- Bad Oldesloe
- Occupation
- theologian
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Anabaptism
- Image
- Meno simonis.jpg
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- 1561-01-31
- date of birth
- 1496-01-01
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- Bad Oldesloe
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Encyclopedic overview
Menno Simons ( Dutch: [ˈmɛnoː ˈsimɔns]; West Frisian: Minne Simens [ˈmɪnə ˈsimə̃ːs]; 1496 – 31 January 1561) was a Roman Catholic priest from the Friesland region of the Low Countries who was excommunicated from the Catholic Church and became an influential Anabaptist religious leader. Simons was a contemporary of the Protestant Reformers and it is from his name that his followers became known as Mennonites.
Biography
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