Brown persevered in the face of continuous hostility and, in 1863, became the first woman in the history of the United States to be ordained a minister. Brown worked one year in Vermont and five years at the Universalist church in Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts.
Who is the leader of the Protestant Church?
Martin Luther, often called the father of Protestantism, fundamentally changed the Christian world through his force of will and new ideas. He tried passionately to reform the Catholic Church.