Brewer's: Augsburg Confession

The chief standard of faith in the Lutheran church. So called because, while the Diet of the German Empire was sitting at Augsburg, in 1530, the confession of faith drawn up by Melancthon and Luther was presented to Charles V.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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