Menno Simons, Dutch minister and theologian (born 1496)

Menno Simons

Dutch theologian, namesake for the Mennonites (1496–1561)

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…