Who started the Swiss Reformed Church and initially promoted the Reformation in Switzerland?
Swiss Reformed Church The Swiss Reformed Church (German: "Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchen der Schweiz" , "Evangelical Reformed Churches of Switzerland") refers to the Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel (Johannes Oecolampadius), Bern (Berchtold Haller and Niklaus Manuel), St. Gallen (Joachim Vadian), to cities in southern Germany and via Alsace (Martin Bucer) to France.
Veit Dietrich Veit Dietrich, also "Vitus Theodorus" or "Vitus Diterichus", (8 December 1506 – 25 March 1549) was a German theologian, writer and reformer.