The treaties of Münster and Osnabrück end the war and settle the confessional map of the empire on the principle of cuius regio, eius religio, extended to the Reformed.
Tagged: Catholic Christian Lutheran Reformed and Presbyterian
The Event
- Date
- 1648 (exact)
- Era
- Reformation; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Münster and Osnabrück; today Münster and Osnabrück, Germany
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed and Presbyterian
- Key texts
- Peace of Westphalia
Connections
- Thirty Years' War; settled
Primary Sources
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Secondary Sources
- MacCulloch, A History of Christianity (Allen Lane, 2009)
Provenance: HIST-0038; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-26.
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