Bernardino Ochino

Bernardino Ochino , 1487-1564, Italian religious reformer. Ochino was a Capuchin friar, a popular preacher, and vicar general of the Capuchins in 1538 and 1541. Influenced by Juan de Valdés and his circle in Naples, Ochino turned to belief in justification by faith alone, gave up his belief in monastic vows, and adopted an independent Protestantism. In 1542 he fled from the Roman Inquisition to Geneva, where he was well received by Calvin. After two years there he went to England, where he was highly respected until the accession of Mary I, when he returned to Switzerland and became (1555) pastor at Zürich. There he rejected such Calvinist doctrines as predestination. Expelled from the Swiss cantons in 1563 by the Calvinists, he spent his last year in Germany and Poland.

Ochino, Bernardino (1487–1564), Protestant Reformer. He was an Observantine Franciscan and then a Capuchin, in each case holding high office. He became a Lutheran in 1541. He was cited before the Inquisition, but escaped to Geneva. In 1547 T. Cranmer invited him to England. Here he wrote against the Papacy and against the Calvinist doctrine of predestination. In 1555 he became a pastor at Zurich, but he was later expelled from office, being found unsound on the doctrine of the Trinity and on monogamy.