Deepening of the Geneva Reformation

Timeline

1. 1550–1555Geneva · GenevaCalvin, working with the Geneva consistory and city council, refined church discipline regulations, strengthening moral surveillance, access to the sacraments, and enforcement of church law, making Geneva a model 'City of God' governed strictly on Calvinist principles, attracting exiled Protestants and refugees seeking shelter.
2. 1559Geneva Academy · GenevaPromoted by Calvin and Theodore Beza, the Geneva city council approved the establishment of the Geneva Academy, divided into theology and the humanities, to train pastors, teachers, and civic leaders. The academy quickly became a hub of Calvinist intellectual production, supplying systematically trained clergy to reformist communities across Europe.
3. 1555–1560Geneva · SwitzerlandGeneva's printing industry and academy network exported theological and political-religious ideas to the French Huguenots, Scottish reformers, and the Low Countries; reformers such as John Knox were educated in Geneva. By the late 1550s the Genevan model had become the institutional and intellectual template for Calvinism's international expansion.