Menno Simons
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Dutch theologian, founder of the Mennonites
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Menno Simons was a Roman Catholic priest from the Friesland region of the Low Countries who was excommunicated from the Catholic Church and became an influential Anabaptist religious leader. Simons was a contemporary of the Protestant Reformers and it is from his name that his followers became known as Mennonites.