First Helvetic Confession

The First Helvetic Confession is a Reformed confession of faith drawn up in 1536 chiefly by the Swiss Reformed theologian Heinrich Bullinger, together with Leo Jud, Kaspar Megander, Oswald Myconius, Simon Grynaeus, Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito. It was intended to bring confessional unity among the Protestant cantons of Switzerland in the face of the Catholic cantons, and this drafting work established Bullinger as the leading author of Swiss Reformed doctrine. It was followed thirty years later by the Second Helvetic Confession of 1566, Bullinger's own mature restatement of Reformed belief, which spread far beyond Switzerland across the Reformed churches of Europe. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/