John Calvin studied theology in France and experienced a Protestant conversion after the death of his father in 1531. He started learning about Protestant reformers like Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and wrote his influential book Institutes of the Christian Religion. Calvin established a Protestant church in Geneva, Switzerland with a new order of church governance and founded a university to educate young Protestants and spread the faith throughout Europe.
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