Confession of Basel

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Confession of Basel, moderate Protestant Reformation statement of Reformed doctrine composed of 12 articles. It was first drafted by John Oecolampadius, the reformer of Basel, and was compiled in fuller form in 1532 by his successor at Basel, Oswald Myconius. In 1534 it was adopted by the Basel city authorities and two or three years later by the city of Muhlhausen in Alsace. It was used by the Church of Basel into the 19th century. The Confession of Basel must be distinguished from the First Helvetic Confession, which is sometimes called the Second Confession of Basel.

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