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Lollards

Pre-Reformation dissent · c. 1382 · England

English followers of John Wycliffe's calls for vernacular scripture and church reform; persecuted, driven underground, and absorbed by the 16th century, with their influence flowing into the Bohemian reform and the English Reformation.

Lollards was formed around 1382. The movement died out around 1550. Lollards's institutional line runs back through Roman Catholicism to the post-apostolic church. No body on this tree is the assembly of Acts 2; where a body claims that, the claim appears in the claimed-lineage layer.

Between the post-apostolic church and Lollards stand 2 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.

At a glance

Formed
Around 1382
Family
Pre-Reformation dissent
Region
England
Ended
The movement died out around 1550.
Key figures
John Wycliffe
Cause tags
Doctrine, Governance
Also known as
Wycliffites

What it separated from

On the tree

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Solid lines are separations and unions; dashed lines are renewals that began inside a body; dotted gray lines are national organizations of one communion; a diamond marks a fork event where neither side is drawn as the one that left. Every line runs back to the post-apostolic church; no body descends from the assembly of Acts 2.

Research compiled July 2026. Page data built 2026-10-10.