Editing Western Christianity (section)

== Major figures ==
=== Bishop of Rome or the pope ===
{{Further|Pope}}
Relevant figures:
* [[Pope Clement I|Clement of Rome]] (fl. {{circa|96}}), one of the apostolic fathers of the church.
* [[Pope Leo I]]
* [[Gregory the Great]]

=== The Reformers ===
{{Further|Protestant Reformers}}
Relevant figures:
* [[Jan Hus]] ({{circa|1369}}–1415), one of the most relevant theologians in the 14th century.
* [[Martin Luther]] (1483–1546), the most famous reformer and theologian in the Reformation and in the 15th century.
* [[Jan Łaski]] (1499-1560), known also as John à Lasco, leading Polish Calvinist reformer and a secretary of Polish King [[Sigismund II Augustus|Sigismund II]]
* [[Hans Tausen]], Bishop of [[Ribe]] (1494–1561), leading theologian of the [[Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein|Reformation in Denmark and Holstein]].
* [[Laurentius Petri]], [[List of archbishops of Uppsala|Archbishop of Uppsala and all Sweden]] (1499–1573), along with his brother [[Olaus Petri]] were regarded as the main Lutheran reformers of Sweden, together with the king [[Gustav I of Sweden]].
* [[Primož Trubar]] (1508–1586), mostly known as the author of the first [[Slovene language]] [[Printing press|printed]] book,<ref name="SBL">{{cite news |url=http://nl.ijs.si:8080/fedora/get/sbl:3985/VIEW/ |work=Slovenian Biographical Lexicon |title=Trubar Primož |publisher=[[Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts]] |access-date=25 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104121353/http://nl.ijs.si:8080/fedora/get/sbl:3985/VIEW/ |archive-date=4 November 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> the founder and the first superintendent of the Protestant Church of the [[Duchy of Carniola]], and for consolidating the [[Slovenian language]].
* [[John Calvin]] (1509–1564)
* [[John Knox]] (1514–1572) 
* [[Ferenc Dávid]] (1520–1579) founder of the [[Unitarian Church of Transylvania]] who laid the foundation for what would become the [[Nontrinitarianism|nontrinitarian]] movement.
* [[Mikael Agricola]], [[Archdiocese of Turku|bishop of Turku]] (1554–1557), he became the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territory at the time. He is often called the "father of literary Finnish".

=== Archbishop of Canterbury and primate of all England ===
{{Further|Primacy of Canterbury}}
Relevant figures:
* [[Augustine of Canterbury]] (597–604)
* [[Thomas Cranmer]] (1533–1555), one of the major reformers in England
* [[Matthew Parker]] (1504–1575),(Parker was one of the primary architects of the Thirty-nine Articles)

=== Archbishop of Lyon and primate of the Gauls ===
{{Further|Primate of the Gauls}}
Relevant figures:
* [[Irenaeus|Irenaeus of Lyon]] (died {{circa|202}})

=== Patriarch of Aquileia ===
{{Further|Patriarch of Aquileia}}
Relevant figures:
* [[Chromatius|Chromatius of Aquilea]]