| Practice / Doctrine | Church circa 200 AD |
Rome circa 1563 AD |
Protestants circa 1563 AD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papal supremacy over all churches | No | Yes | No |
| Transubstantiation | No | Yes | No |
| Christ re-offered in the Eucharist | No | Yes | No |
| Praying to saints | No | Yes | No |
| The Rosary; Mary as Mediatrix | No | Yes | No |
| Purgatory as formal doctrine | No | Yes | No |
| Indulgences | No | Yes | No |
| Veneration of icons | No | Yes | No |
| Apocrypha officially treated as Scripture | No | Yes | No |
| Confession to priests required | No | Yes | No |
| Seven ordained sacraments | No | Yes | No |
| Formal canonization of saints | No | Yes | No |
| Communion cup offered to laity | Yes | No | Yes |
| Vernacular Scripture in service regularly | Yes | No | Yes |
| Married clergy | Yes | No | Yes |
| Congregational singing | Yes | No | Yes |
| Lay participation in church governance | Yes | No | Yes |
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