75-78 Introduction Meantime, the emperor had summoned Luther to appear at Worms*, before the imperial diet; and the two parties were now about to meet face to face. Another man of letters, Helius Eobanus Hessus, also urged Hutten to take up arms for Luther.
Protestantism in Ireland. Protestantism is a minority Christian denominational family on the island of Ireland. In the 2011 census of Northern Ireland, 48% (883,768) described themselves as Protestant, which was a decline of approximately 5% from the 2001 census. In the 2011 census of the Republic of Ireland, 2.92% of the population described themselves as Protestant.
Akensonâs review of these surveys, for example, suggests that any-. where from 51 to 59 percent of respondents (depending on the sur-. vey) who identiï¬ed themselves as Irish were Protestant, with about a. third being Catholic and the rest being non-Christian or professing no. religion. 1. This pattern has not changed.