Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus

Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus born Joannes Arnoldsz Ravens (c.1582, Leiden – 2 January 1650, Amsterdam)[1] was a Dutch Remonstrant minister and jurist.

A pupil of Jacobus Arminius,[2] he took up the Arminian views, he was a public supporter of them by 1609, and in 1610 signed the Five Articles of Remonstrance.

In a letter to Johannes Uytenbogaert on May 14, 1629, he denied rumors of his conversion, expressing confusion about the basis of such claims.

In 1649, just days before his death, he declared his conversion to Catholicism, stating that, after “sharp investigation”, he had concluded that the “Catholic, Apostolic, Roman religion” was the true path to salvation.

This declaration, allegedly made in the presence of two witnesses, was documented in a letter to his son, but is only preserved through Philipp van Limborch, a secondary source.