Luther continued to preach, write, and publish his attacks on the church, was excommunicated in january 1521, and told to appear before the assembly at the city of worms Luther was summoned to the diet of worms to renounce or reaffirm his views in response to a papal bull of pope leo x [4] luther was summoned by the emperor.
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In response, luther publicly burned the papal bull and refused to renounce his propositions
He was excommunicated from the roman catholic church on january 3, 1521.
The pope then excommunicated luther on 3 january 1521 The traditional defenders of the faith had actually anticipated that excommunication would be followed immediately by an imperial ban, but the imperial potentates and noblemen insisted on hearing luther before an imperial diet. The reformer was warned unequivocally that if he did not publicly renounce these errors and submit himself to the authority of the roman church that he would be excommunicated. Rome hoped that the diet would reject luther’s cause, thus easing the task of a general council of bishops, chaired by the pope, who would be dealing with the religious issues raised.
Pope leo x had just issued the final ban on luther—ending his allotted time for repentance—on january 3, and the diet of worms opened with a papal brief requesting charles v to do his duty, arrest luther, and stamp out the lutheran heresy. Martin luther was summoned to the diet in order to renounce or reaffirm his views in response to a papal bull of pope leo x In answer to questioning, he defended these views and refused to recant them.
