biography
pronunciation:
[farel]
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| lived:
| (1489–1565)
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| biography:
| Protestant reformer, born near Gap, SE France. He studied at Paris, where he became a convert to Protestantism, and was forced to flee to Switzerland (1524). After being twice compelled to leave Geneva, he returned there in 1534, the town council soon after proclaiming the Reformation. A former colleague of Lefèvre d'Etaples at Meaux, he was a zealous preacher of the Reformation in French-speaking Switzerland, and persuaded Jean Calvin to situate his headquarters in Geneva. The severity of the ecclesiastical discipline which Calvin imposed caused their expulsion from the city (1538). He later returned with Calvin to Geneva, and then went to Neuchâtel (1543), where he died. |
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