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Religious reformer John Wycliffe is condemned as a heretic at the Council of Constance.

Religious reformer John Wycliffe is condemned as a heretic at the Council of Constance.

English theologian (1328–1384)
🗓️ 4 May 1415

John Wycliffe was an English scholastic philosopher, Christian reformer, Catholic priest, and a theology professor at the University of Oxford. Wycliffe is traditionally believed to have advocated for or made a vernacular translation of the Vulgate Bible into Middle English, though more recent scholarship has minimised the extent of his advocacy or involvement for lack of direct contemporary evidence.

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