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Originally Posted by Ohio

Your study of church history is wanting at best.

The early Moravian (Today's Czech Republic) church was there with . . .

I do not recall my source at the moment, but it indcated that while the moniker "Moravian Brethren" came to be later, the origins of the group was in the vicinity of 1447. That doesn't make that source entirely accurate. And it doesn't declare that the features that could be argued as being "Philadelphia" we seen that far back.

But even if we are to accept a later date, it is so close to the time of the start of the Protestant reformation that it is almost simultaneous, not so much sequential